A Journalistic Portfolio

I wrote about city government, housing, public safety and more for the Burlington Free Press in Burlington, Vermont from 2021-2023. While in this role, I had the privilege of attending the New England First Amendment Institute reporting workshop to learn investigative journalism skills. 

Before moving to Vermont, I was a Pulliam Fellow at the Indy Star in Indianapolis, Indiana, a reporting intern for WFIU/WTIU, the local NPR and PBS affiliates in Bloomington, Indiana, as well an intern at the Kokomo Tribune in Kokomo, Indiana and the Daily Monitor in Kampala, Uganda. I also wrote and edited for the Indiana Daily Student, IU's student-run paper while I was an undergraduate student.

• Strong writing skills in both deadline reporting and long-form narrative writing. 
• Proficiency in Excel to review and organize data for investigations
• Experience retrieving and deciphering police reports and court documents. 
• Writing headlines with SEO in mind
• Writing captions for social media posts
• Newsletter writing 
• I can use a DSLR camera and operate basic audio equipment
• Basic skills in Adobe Audition, PhotoShop and multiple data story-telling tools
• I get along with co-workers easily and work well in teams or alone.

Fourth Place in the 2020 national Hearst Competition for Personality/Profile Writing  

First Place in 2019 Multimedia News Story Contest, International Communication Division of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

First Place in Non-Deadline News, student category, Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2019 Best of Indiana awards 

I want to write stories that keep the powerful accountable, give hope, reveal injustice, inform and inspire. I want to learn from seasoned reporters and editors and embrace all challenges as lessons.