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Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Leadership: Managed overlapping teams in high-pressure, fast-changing environment to write, produce and deliver three hours of engaging visual storytelling daily with 100% team retention through tumultuous events of 2020; promoted Oct. 2020.• Storytelling: Strong people-narratives told with clarity and impact. Voracious media consumer driven by relentless curiosity to stay ahead of issues and trends.• Writing & Editing: Hands-on writer able to synthesize complex ideas and technical descriptions into relatable terms for mass consumption. Performed final editorial review of all stories to ensure accurate and compelling delivery.• Social Media: Cultivated personal and brand influence across social platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat), developing original content and experimenting new ways to engage. • Brand Development: Created and launched a new market-leading product that disrupted status quo and became model for future initiatives.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Project Management: Developed daily original content across NBC News global brands including TODAY, Nightly News and MSNBC. Managed end-to-end processes pitching, planning, writing and presenting stories while collaborating across organization to deliver on rigorous deadlines. • Ownership: Responsible for news coverage of 13 Midwest states monitoring, escalating and reality-checking constantly evolving stories. Quick thinker and problem solver, helping boost Chicago Bureau story count 40% in first year. Received an Emmy nomination and served as fill-in anchor of NBC Nightly News.• Crisis Response: Coordinated immediate response to various national crisis as Midwest-lead of NBC’s “go-team,” navigating last minute logistics, unfamiliar locations, shifting conditions on the ground and evolving objectives. Always ready-to-launch with no set hours or location.• Strategic Communications: Effective storytelling demonstrated deep understanding of major political, economic and social issues and how they contribute to the fast-changing media environment and public-private dialogue.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Anchored top-rated weekend news, guiding coverage and editorial decisions for vanguard storytelling brand at the most-awarded television station in America. • Cross-platform storytelling researching topics, writing scripts and conducting interviews with politicians, educators and business leaders focused on community impact and driving results. • Project managed content development from pitch to completion each day across multiple platforms (broadcast, digital and social).

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• Solo-anchor of highly competitive weekend news managing often-simultaneous breaking stories on Las Vegas Strip.• Wrote, researched and presented stories for Contact 13 consumer-advocacy brand following 2008 Financial Crisis, simplifying and humanizing transformational change and reinvention of core-businesses across entertainment, hospitality, travel and tourism.

Boise, Idaho, United States

• Established skills writing urgent, accurate copy in minutes and structuring stories for audience engagement.

Washington, Dc

• Constituent outreach communicating key votes and policy positions for Rep. Shelley Berkley (NV,01). • Facilitated interactions between Members of Congress, business leaders and VIPs.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism, Political Science (Double Major), Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Honors Society, GWTV, University Writing Program

Semester Abroad, European Politics