After graduating college, I spent one year shadowing a producer at KNPB Channel 5 in Reno, Nevada. I then moved to Portland, Oregon, where I was hired as an anchor and writer for digital news startup, NewsBeat Social (which later became United News International/Global One News). Over the course of four years, I helped the company surpass 3 million organic Facebook followers with video clips often exceeding 1 million views on YouTube. I remotely interviewed major leaders in their respective fields, from groundbreaking archeologists studying human evolution to cutting-edge surgeons. I also met Dr. Jane Goodall during this time.I then transitioned to local news, spending four years as a digital content producer at KOIN 6 News — the Portland, Oregon CBS affiliate. I covered everything from crime and politics to nonprofits and environmental work and was a key participant in the newsroom's coverage of major events, including the local BLM protests, the 2020 presidential election, and the COVID-19 pandemic. My daily responsibilities included producing original stories, turning reporter packages into online articles, sending breaking news push alerts, monitoring digital, TV, and police scanner channels, supporting the assignment editor, managing the station's social media feeds, and responding to reader/viewer feedback.I joined newsletter-first media company 6AM City in November 2021. My co-editor Ben McBee and I launched the company's Portland branch — PDXtoday — the following month. Together, we produced a daily email newsletter focused on hyper-local, positive, and serviceable content (everything except crime and politics), each containing two original stories, local events, "news notes," engagement modules, and an editor's blurb. We also managed PDXtoday's social feeds. By October 2024, PDXtoday had a newsletter audience of over 53,000 with an average open rate of 37% and 40,800 Instagram followers. Across all platforms, PDXtoday's collective audience approached 100,000. I connected with and interviewed countless community members, from civic leaders to small business owners, attended hard-hat tours and restaurant openings, and had the honor of elevating all of the good going on in Portland. Internally, I supported the company by mentoring new employees, contributing to editorial presentations, and hosting the company's first Arthur F. Burns fellow.In my free time, I also wrote and anchored on a volunteer basis for SpaceTV News, an online program producing digital news updates about the space industry.