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Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead day-to-day metro coverage of Seattle and Washington state for print and online, helping to coordinate the newspaper's daily story lineup and determine news priorities.

Editor for the Mental Health Project at The Seattle Times, a grant-funded initiative to report on mental and behavioral health in Washington state. Team's work ranges from investigative reporting to engagement efforts including live events. We also partnered on the podcast "Lost Patients," distributed on the NPR Network. We won the 2024 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting and multiple Best of the West awards for explanatory reporting.

Assistant Metro Editor leading The Seattle Times' coverage of the criminal legal system, and Sunday editor for the local desk. Served five months as interim editor for the Project Homeless team, a grant-funded effort to cover issues surrounding homelessness in Washington.

New Orleans, La.

Led a 14-person team focused on breaking news in an extremely competitive media market, with coverage areas including crime, weather, roads, education and consumer business.Our crime team documented violence in New Orleans, a city with one of the highest murder rates in the United States. From breaking news coverage of crime scenes, to follow-up features on the impacts of violence, to investigative work that held the police department accountable, our work was the go-to source for information about crime in the New Orleans metro area.My team also led The Times-Picayune's weather coverage, which over the course of three years included tornadoes, repeated major flooding and hurricanes. Our creative approaches gave New Orleanians the up-to-the-minute information they needed to know, and significantly boosted traffic to our website.

New Orleans, La.

News reporter for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, covering breaking general assignment news and coordinating special projects in and around New Orleans. Previously covered Jefferson Parish government. From Nov. 2012 through Sept. 2015 covered the community of Baton Rouge, La., including city government, K-12 education and general community news.

San Jose, Calif.

Technology reporter covering every aspect of Silicon Valley's tech community, from startups to the biggest corporations. Also covering life sciences and cleantech.

- Covered city government, education and crime in cities including Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View and Los Altos.- The Daily News is part of the Bay Area News Group. Stories were frequently picked up by sister papers regionwide, including the San Jose Mercury News and San Mateo County Times.

- Wrote a variety of feature stories for the newspaper's "Living" section. Topics ranged from a Jazzercise convention to profiles of local chefs for the Times-Picayune's dining guide, along with online videos.- Assisted with coverage during Hurricane Gustav, writing news and helping edit the newspaper's website during the storm. After the storm wrote several features on the city's recovery.

- Wrote for local daily business paper for two summers, covering development, city politics and other issues affecting business.

- Worked in the newspaper's bureau in Gresham, the fourth-largest city in Oregon.- Filled in for and assisted beat reporters with education, crime and city government coverage, as well as assorted other news and feature stories.- As part of internship, spent approximately one month working on the newspaper's copy desk, copy editing and writing headlines.