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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Develop in-depth, data-dense feature and news articles for online solutions-oriented media startup • Create solutions-oriented journalism, providing the community with actionable, accurate information to make informed, important decisions on serious topics.• Topics covered include homelessness, gun violence, business, economic development and racial equity• Take photographs to accompany stories• Lead writer for The Homefront, an award-winning, solutions-oriented journalism project addressing the homelessness crisis in Kalamazoo County.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Produce award-winning, longform narrative features and profiles for the Greater Kalamazoo's city/regional and culture magazine with an audience of 16,000 monthly print and online readers• Write in-depth cover stories and profiles (2000-3000+ words) in a variety of areas including profiles, business, art and community issues• Write shorter (800-1200 word) features on topics in business, arts, philanthropy and lifestyle • Work closely with editorial leadership in the generation of story ideas and development of graphics/art and photography to accompany stories

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Produced award-winning, long-form and multi-part news and feature pieces on a gamut of issues, including an investigation of the militarization of local police, a profile of lobstermen off the Maine coast,, and intimate interview with one of the few surviving Civil Rights activists who marched the entire distance from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. • Researched, recorded interviews and produced stories for on-air broadcast• Traveled across the region and nation to cover and create stories

• Wrote long-form features and profiles of prominent alumni and students for both the private college’s quarterly alumni magazine, Lux Esto, and its online publication, Be Light* Increased brand awareness of the communication department's various marketing products, helped drive donations and gifts to the College, maintained media lists and marketing materials for dissemination of College announcements and news bulletins• Assignments included travel to both coasts and numerous places in between to research and interview story subjects

Classes Toward A M.A., Counselor Education

B.A., English And History, Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: Student Ambassadors, Bronco Buddies, Alternative Winter Break, WIDR radio.