Experience

General assignment reporter at PBS News (Dec. 2021 - present)

General assignment reporter at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, Report for America corps member (Oct. 2020 - Dec. 2021)

Freelance journalist - The Legal Examiner (July 2020 - Sept. 2020)

Associate producer at Washington Week (Feb. 2020 - June 2020)

Newsperson at the Associated Press, Little Rock, Arkansas (June 2018 - Aug. 2019)

Production assistant at PBS NewsHour (Jan. 2016 - June 2018)

Former other things (college paper editor-in-chief, bakery cashier, public safety dispatcher, creative agency assistant producer, preschool assistant teacher, technical writer, comedy writing intern, bat mitzvah)

Qualifications

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”

Education

St. Mary's College of Maryland | English

December, 2012 | Magna Cum Laude

Honors

National Press Club 2024 Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellent in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics, Honorable Mention for "No Place to Live or Die"

Report for America 2021 Local News Awards, 3rd place, COVID-19 coverage for “Misinformation and mistrust: Officials face big hurdles in vaccine-hesitant Memphis neighborhood”

Society of Professional Journalists, Arkansas Chapter, 2018

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"

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