Curriculum Vitae

General Assignment Digital Reporter | Arlington, VA

General assignment reporter for national news program's website. Produce short and long form stories on a variety of subjects, including quick turn pieces as well as deeply reported feature projects.

• Pitch, report, write and produce breaking news stories, explainers, feature stories, and social media collaborations.
• Use breaking news events to identify second day stories with unique angles.
• Collaborate with broadcast colleagues to help produce stories, including identifying relevant sources and providing background reporting.
• Manage digital coverage of wire stories, including identifying relevant and newsworthy stories, selecting photos, writing headlines and editing for style.

General Assignment Reporter | Memphis, TN

General assignment reporter for local investigative nonprofit journalism site producing feature, investigative work and spot stories. Report for America corps member Oct. 2020 through May 2021.

• Focus on the intersection of power, poverty and policy in Memphis, for local, state and national audiences.
• Cover COVID-19 impact and vaccine access, immigrants' rights, labor issues, and food and housing insecurity.
• Identify and cultivate sources in traditionally underreported populations.

Newsperson | Little Rock, AR

One of three Little Rock reporters for The Associated Press covering Arkansas for state and national wires, occasionally covering other parts of the South, including Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma news.

• Covered Arkansas for a national audience by breaking news, such as scooping an interview with a now criminally-charged VA pathologist.
• Reported general assignment enterprise stories appealing to broad audiences.
• Shot photos and video to accompany stories or for standalone distribution, including live footage and on-camera interviews during historic flooding in northwest Arkansas.
• Contributed to a variety of national beats and collaborative coverage, including cannabis, education, law enforcement, politics and religion.

General Assignment Production Assistant, Segment Unit Production Assistant | Arlington, VA

Broadcast and digital production assistant, both for general assignment and daily coverage.

• Wrote politics, national affairs and foreign affairs enterprise and spot stories for digital.
• Assisted in daily broadcast production, including developing and pitching stories, researching, gathering footage, logging footage and interviews, writing scripts, conducting pre-interviews, ordering graphics and editing.
• Produced field segments including developing and pitching stories, pre-interviewing guests, coordinating field shoots, writing scripts and overseeing editing.

Assistant Producer, Production Coordinator, Production Assistant | Ellicott City, MD

• Acquired and logged all footage for editorial use.
• Wrote for variety of media including television and radio broadcast, online content, and social media.
• Assisted in research, scriptwriting, editing in Avid, and sound mixing in Avid ProTools.
• Supervised production of Discovery's season launch of "Naked and Afraid," including overseeing graphics and editorial production.

Bachelor of Arts, English

3.9 GPA | Magna Cum Laude

The Point News, Editor-in-chief, 2012

Knight Center Online Course: "How to use ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in your newsroom"

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma: "Trauma-informed interviewing"

Honorable Mention for "No Place to Live or Die"

3rd place, COVID-19 coverage for "Misinformation and mistrust: Officials face big hurdles in vaccine-hesitant Memphis neighborhood"

• 2nd place, Outstanding New Journalist
• 2nd place, Investigative Reporting for "Arkansas schools regularly suspend truant kids despite ban"
• 3rd place, Feature for "Possible migrant site minutes from former internment camp"