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Athens, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Write investigative articles about how local and state government policies affect all Georgians, with covered topics including tort reform, eminent domain, business regulations, housing regulations, licensing.
• Interview and profile many average Georgians who were affected by local and state government policies, as well as the elected officials who enacted those policies
• Edit and proofread Georgia Public Policy material before publication
• Appear solo in videos to discuss published works, with the videos later shown on Georgia Public Policy's social media outlets, including Facebook, YouTube, X, and Instagram

• Clipped brief videos from various shows on the Real America’s Voice television network and postedthem to Twitter (X) and Rumble
• Wrote brief descriptions to accompany every Twitter and Rumble post, and speed was essential
• Responsible for posting accurate and timely information for nearly 300,000 social media followers five nights a week
• Certain Twitter (X) posts were shared by nationally well-known and influential media and politicalfigures, including Donald Trump Jr., Kari Lake, Jack Posobiec, and Sebastian Gorka, among many others.

Nashville, Tennessee

• Broke important news stories that received statewide and nationwide attention after filing public records requests and developing relationships with story sources, for not only the Tennessee Star but also the Georgia.
• Wrote and published 15 to 20 stories per week
• Shot, produced, and edited videos to accompany certain stories online
• Interviewed nationally well-known political figures, celebrities, and opinion-makers, including Nikki Haley, Donald Trump Jr., MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, former New York City Police.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Helped elect Bill Lee governor of Tennessee after he was not expected to win enough votes to even compete in the general election
• Established media outreach and got coverage of the PAC in the state’s largest media outlets
• Wrote op-eds supporting Bill Lee and recruited volunteers to write letters to the editor of their local newspapers

Nashville, Tennessee

• Lobbied members of the Tennessee General Assembly to support an Article V term limits resolution
• Recruited grassroots volunteers across Tennessee and oversaw their work
• Provided media attention for the organization in Tennessee and Georgia by writing press releases and newspaper op-eds

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Recognized by The Washington Post for authoring what it called one of the nation’s best state-based blogs
• Produced more than 1,000 in-depth investigative stories exposing government waste, fraud, and abuse in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, and Louisiana
• Published or cited by national and international news agencies and talk shows or columnists, including FOX News, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Drudge Report, newspaper columnist Dave Barry, Town Hall, Human Events, The.
• Broke the Tennessee Logo-Gate story, which went viral statewide and nationwide
• Investigated fraud in the EBT card program in Tennessee, which resulted in former Gov. Bill Haslam signing a new state law designed to fix the problem
• Wrote and published a series of investigative articles that contributed to a police chief resigning from office

Ruston, Louisiana

• Wrote hard news, feature stories, and a weekly column.
• Wrote at least one to three stories per day
• Won the newspaper’s first photography award
• Wrote in-depth stories about several unsolved homicides in an economically disadvantaged area of the city, and that included interviewing the victims' family members as well as local pastors and law enforcement officials
• Won statewide and regional writing awards

Decatur, Texas

• Covered hard news and feature stories
• Traveled to breaking news events, including those that happened overnight
• Proofread and helped edit the paper before publication

Sebring, Florida

• Covered county government, courts, and law enforcement in Highlands County
• Wrote stories that appeared regularly in the Tampa Tribune, including one that made the front page, above the fold
• Regularly scooped competing media on breaking government and law enforcement stories

Fort Pierce, Florida Area

• Reported all news in Martin County, Florida, one of the state’s wealthiest counties
• Covered the immediate aftermaths of Hurricanes Jeanne and Frances, interviewed survivors, and got an exclusive interview with former FEMA Chief Michael Brown
• Promoted the newspaper at various events around Martin and St. Lucie counties

Monroe, Louisiana

• Served as copy editor, columnist and reporter
• Covered a wide range of subjects affecting the university, including academics and athletics
• Also wrote articles for the school yearbook for the 2001-02 academic year, including coverage of how the school reacted to 9-11.

Farmerville, Louisiana

• Full-time position which also served as a summer internship
• Covered a federal lawsuit that a police juror filed against Union Parish, including hearings at a federal courthouse
• Interviewed undercover narcotics agents at their local safe house
• Covered a local (and very contentious) sheriff's race
• Wrote feature stories about local residents

Ruston, Louisiana

• Assisted library patrons in the periodicals section
• Helped keep the library organized, and that included keeping all newspapers, magazines, and bound materials in chronological order
• Demonstrated to patrons how to work microfiche and microfilm machines
• Helped patrons find needed periodicals
• Participated in a three-month renovation project to make all 12 floors of the library compliant with the new fire code

Masters, Communication

Activities and Societies: President-ULM chapter of Society of Professional Journalists; Writer and copy editor for Pow Wow (student.

Bachelor'S, Political Science; Minor In English

Political science major with an English minor.

Education record

Education record

Master'S Degree