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San Bernardino County, California, United States

Originally hired as an education reporter for the Southern California News Group, I currently work as a watchdog reporter covering the Inland Empire region of California, home to about 4 million residents and dozens of government agencies.I made international headlines in 2014 when I reported that Rialto Unified teachers gave Holocaust denial literature.

Victorville, California

For eight years, I was the primary journalist covering the High Desert city of Hesperia, doing watchdog, enterprise and community journalism.Among the highlights of this time was my coverage a more than $74 million dollar contract to build a comprehensive high school to the bidder whom the district staff's blind evaluation declared the least-qualified.

North Hollywood, California

I was CBR's first employee, hired to bring professional journalism to the online comics news space. We established a standard of quality and a reputation for professionalism that eventually won the site three Eisner Awards, as well as giving me the geek culture bonafides to land interviews with many of today's top creators.

Irvine, California

I worked for the United States' top videogame development house, representing them at trade shows, interacting with the press and even doing some in-house testing. My name appears in the credits for Warcraft III, World of Warcraft and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, which is pretty darn cool.

Los Angeles, California

In the still-early days on the World Wide Web, I helped the Los Angeles Times Syndicate create mini-sites of content that could be installed on newspaper websites, giving them high-quality syndicated content from Sydney Omarr, Golf Digest, relationship expert John Gray and more, all with a polish that was unusual for the time. In addition to my editorial.

Woodbridge, Virginia

I worked as a features reporter for a suburban daily in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.A highlight of my time at the Potomac News was the 11 days a photographer and I spent in Bosnia in 1997, covering the service of local troops in the American-controlled portions of the country.

Cairo, Egypt

I spent 19 months covering news, features, business and sports for English-language publications in Cairo, including Al-Ahram Weekly, Egypt Today, International Trade Reporter, The Middle East Times, Sports & Fitness Egypt and the American University in Cairo alumni magazine.

Mclean, Virginia

I covered business, health, arts and entertainment and education news stories for three weekly suburban newspapers -- the Arlington Courier, the Great Falls Current and the McLean Providence Journal -- in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Highlights included profiling former presidential candidate-turned-television-pundit Pat Buchanan and.

Christiansburg, Virginia

I learned journalism on the job under the tutelage of the great Debbie Haerr. I covered the towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg, covering everything from local government to state politics to crime and features.