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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois

-Oversaw coverage of nation’s third-largest school district. Edited extensive coverage of the longest teachers strike in 30 years as well as continuing battles over reopening schools during the pandemic. Sun-Times schools reporter won a 2nd place National Headliner Award for beat reporting in 2020. -Guided coverage of marijuana legalization in Illinois.

Chicago, Illinois

-Brought in during crisis situation to manage all aspects of the well-known alternative weekly while overseeing transition to new ownership during turbulent period. -Edited magazine-length features on the suicide of a Chicago police officer’s daughter and mismanagement in the Cook County Clerk’s Office, which won 1st place in feature writing by the.

-An original editor of DNAinfo Chicago. Helped recruit and hire editors and reporters; establish coverage priorities and assignments; determine digital story flow and publishing guidelines; and prepare the site for launch in late 2012. Site became one of city’s most trusted news sources with 8.3 million monthly pageviews, 120,000 email subscribers and.

Greater Chicago Area

Edited breaking news and longer form stories for Sun-Times newspaper and website. Assigned stories to reporters, fielded breaking news updates and helped oversee coverage. Wrote headlines for website, breaking news alerts and social media. Helped run city desk on night and weekend shifts.

Greater Chicago Area

Award-winning reporter covering a variety of beats, including higher education, museums and technology. Broke story on a college administrator who plagiarized her dissertation and punished a student who reported her; story won the Peter Lisagor Award for Education Reporting. Wrote five-part, 10-page series on the filming of "The Blues Brothers" and its.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Traveled to China for in-depth reporting project. Wrote stories on international adoption, invasive species and micro-lending program that protected rare cranes.

Chicago, Illinois

General assignment and courts reporter. Broke stories on a controversy at the city’s most prestigious Catholic school that led to the removal of a top administrator and on turmoil at a model inner-city school that led to a staff exodus. Uncovered story of a terminally ill inmate who died as a review board bungled his plea for early release, leading to a.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Covered the University of Wisconsin and higher education in Wisconsin. Traveled to Vietnam and Montana for stories on UW research. Wrote an award-winning series on special-interest influence on the state Legislature. Lead reporter on the 1994 campaign for governor.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Wrote magazine-length features on a suicide at a for-profit psychiatric hospital; a federal employee who was the subject of extensive discrimination; and on racial profiling and false arrests of African-American shoppers at Dillard’s, an upscale department store chain.

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science