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Conduct live and recorded interviews and produce live and recorded interview segments for “Colorado Matters,” daily interview-style public affairs program

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Write, report and fact-check news and feature stories for print and digital editions of a diverse mix of regional and national media outlets: including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBCNews.com, Essence, Ebony, The Boston Globe, Netflix Queue, The Huffington Post, The Undefeated (Landscape), The Christian Science Monitor, People, The Colorado Trust, Jet, The Root, The Grio, NPR.org, The American Prospect, Heart & Soul, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Diverse Issues In Higher Education, The Crisis, The Denver Urban Spectrum, Time.com, BET.com, Jane, Country Woman, Farm & Ranch Living, Medium, HealthyWomen, YES!, YourTango and the Atlanta affiliate of NPR.

Northwestern University Medill School Of Journalism

Provide support, resources and advocacy for freelance journalists, with an emphasis on supporting freelancers of color and others underrepresented in the media industry.

Wrote news features and commentary articles while producing a 12-episode investigative journalism podcast on gender pay disparities facing Black women in the American workforce for politically progressive labor focused Chicago-based magazine.

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One of four candidates selected nationwide to complete a social justice investigative reporting project as part of the nationally-competitive journalism initiative supported by the Ford Foundation, The Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.

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One of nine writers selected nationwide by the Education Writers Association to complete an enterprising education-themed journalism project.

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Write, report, research, copy edit, fact-check news and feature articles and coordinate photography for national African American interest magazine that has been published continuously since 1945.

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Write, research, fact-check and copy edit articles and in-depth digital "guides" for an online publisher with a client portfolio list that includes MoneyGeek.com and AffordableCollegesOnline.com.

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Write, report, copy edit, fact-check award-winning news, commentary and feature stories for national news website; also create and/or coordinate multimedia components that accompany articles and schedule promotional coverage. A news feature video that I co-produced received more than two million views.

Greater Denver Area

Wrote web copy, articles, social media posts, news releases, event materials and other internal communications campaign collateral aimed at marketing health insurance products and wellness initiatives to 33,000 enrollees; also hired and supervised communications vendors, produced promotional videos, devised communications campaigns and provided event planning support.

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Wrote, copy edited and fact-checked web and print marketing copy and promotional video script copy for luxury homes division of metro Denver-based realty company.

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Copy edited, fact-checked, posted and optimized marketing web copy applying SEO and keyword strategies for Boulder, Co.-based website behavioral health marketing company; also interviewed clients and wrote Meta descriptions.

Boulder, Co.

Audited graduate level environmental journalism courses, researched environmental justice topics and wrote environmental justice-themed features as part of the Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellowship program at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Wrote and reported on a series of education equity-themed print articles and produced an award-winning NPR affiliate radio report for highly-competitive criminal justice-themed journalism fellowship project funded by the New York City-based Open Society Institute. Also coordinated, hosted and moderated a public "equity in education" panel discussion that highlighted my project work focused on documented disparities in public alternative schools in Georgia.

Greater Atlanta Area

Wrote, reported, copy edited, fact-checked and posted news, feature stories and blogs for national juvenile justice-themed WordPress website based at Kennesaw (Ga.) State University; also recorded and posted video clips/photos, produced radio news reports, covered the Georgia legislature and spearheaded collaborations with national and regional media outlets.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Studied social media strategies, trained and mentored graduate students in digital media storytelling, audited multimedia classes and co-mentored fellowship colleagues; all while completing an award-winning multimedia journalism series and hands-on multimedia training as part of a prestigious fellowship program based at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.

B.A., Journalism

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