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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

I lead a team of beat reporters who cover K-12 education, the environment, and issues of race, class and communities across North Carolina. In this position I develop coverage priorities that align with the station's strategic goals, coordinate daily and enterprise coverage with other members of the editorial leadership team, and oversee the creation of.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I managed a team of producers and reporters to grow the station’s digital and social media platforms, engage digital audiences, and create unique content for numerous social platforms. I successfully advocated for the growth of the department from one digital editor to a team of four, while maintaining a level of high quality web production, storytelling.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

I serve as the lead training mentor at WUNC for the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, a 10-week summer program that places science, engineering, and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide. In this role, I help fellows use their academic training to research, pitch, report, and produce complex science stories to a general.

Mentor for NPR's Next Gen Radio program, a 5-day, audio-focused, digital journalism project. In this role, I teach participants how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece and a companion multimedia story.

Chapel Hill, NC

Occasional adjunct instructor teaching Audio Journalism (MEJO 252), one of the foundational courses in the School of Media and Journalism's broadcast and electronic journalism program. Develop, plan, and execute lessons using a variety of technologies and instructional methods. Present the basics of writing, reporting, audio editing, voicing, and.

Rochester, Minnesota

Bureau chief responsible for defining and executing news coverage of southeastern Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin for MPR’s 43-station radio network, website, social media outlets and newspaper partners. Researched, pitched, wrote, fact-checked, edited and produced an average of 100 daily and long-format radio and web stories per year. Coordinated reporting.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Metro desk reporter responsible for coordinating reporting priorities, conducting interviews and writing stories about crime, education, and local government in South Florida. Coordinated with other reporters and editors to assess daily priorities and cover news events in print, audio and video formats for the newspaper, its website and radio partner.

Santiago, Chile

General assignment freelance reporter at Chile's only English-language, online daily news and aggregation site. Responsible for writing and rewriting stories on a wide-range of topics, from business to the environment. Coordinated with editors, writers and interns to assess weekly news priorities and set daily writing goals and objectives. Collaborated.

Miami, Florida

Municipal reporter responsible for coordinating reporting priorities, conducting interviews and writing stories about politics, elections and crime in several municipalities in Miami-Dade County. Set reporting priorities and goals while working with the staff at two of the paper's regional bureaus and balancing the demands of feature news with breaking.

Miami, Florida

Collaborated with members of a six-person library team to assist reporters and editors on daily and enterprise news stories. Researched and fact-checked stories using internal and external resources, microfilm, and photography archives. Archived the daily newspaper and all its photo content. Also responsible for data entry of hundreds of weekly special.

Washington, D.C.

Shadowed reporters, translated news copy from English to Spanish, researched show topics, scheduled guests, and observed the production of daily Spanish-language radio news shows.

Leadership Academy For Women In Media

Selected for this competitive, transformational learning program for women in media leadership.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Digital Communication

Selected as the 2020 Outstanding Master's Graduate Student in Digital Communication. Also awarded the Joy Gibson MADC Cohort Award.

Certificate, Contemporary Latin American Studies

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Journalism And International Relations

Area Of Concentration: The European Union

High School Diploma