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San Antonio, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Develop policy proposals on early education, school funding, accountability and assessments, and teacher workforce issues.• Research the current education policy landscape in Texas.• Work with the Government Relations and Advocacy teams to enact change in the Texas public education landscape.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Evaluate higher education and nonprofit programs seeking to expand computing careers to diverse groups of students.• Author qualitative research reports based on data collected from focus groups, interviews, and surveys.• Conduct quantitative data analysis of survey results taken by program participants.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Covered legislative debate on education issues including school finance, the digital divide, and inequities within schools.• Analyzed school-level data to identify trends in discipline, enrollment, education funding, and student achievement.• Produced a three-story project examining challenges and inequities of two signature Dallas ISD programs: the ACE campus turnaround model and teacher pay-for-performance system.• Planned focus groups, panel discussions, and online seminars to bring journalism to a wider audience.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Covered 17 public school districts, more than 40 charter schools, and six institutions of higher education.• Balanced in-depth analysis and enterprise stories with quick-turn news coverage, focusing on education opportunities and access in San Antonio schools.• Planned and moderated engagement events that enhanced readers' understanding of important education issues.

Austin, Texas Area

• Provided statehouse coverage of public education, local control, and healthcare issues for 23 newspapers in the Houston, Dallas, and Austin area.• Reported on local issues for newspapers in Cy-Fair near Houston and Round Rock, Pflugerville, and Hutto near Austin.

Cy-Fair

• Covered the third-largest school district in Texas.• Increased social media following and engagement by implementing a digital strategy to grow the online audience.• Recognized as "Newspaper of the Year" out of company's 23 papers.

• Traveled to 15 higher education institutions across the country, including small liberal arts colleges, commuter schools, and large public universities.• Created and presented workshops for audiences as large as 350 people.• Presented at a conference of 1,800 attendees on ways to increase social media engagement.

Houston, Texas

• Pitched and wrote content for Gastronaut, ShopTalk, and On the Town blogs.• Fact-checked and researched articles in the monthly magazine.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Broke news and wrote enterprise stories about the University of Missouri System.• Covered the gender-neutral housing debate, the search for a new chancellor, and the university system's legislative agenda.

• Covered K-12, higher education, and a gun permit scandal resulting in the resignation of the Department of Revenue Director.• Published across the state in various publications including the Columbia Tribune and KMOX.com.

Magazine Journalism And Political Science

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta, Mizzou Alternative Breaks, Omicron Delta Kappa, Griffiths Leadership Society for Women, MIZ vs. ALZ.

Master'S Degree, Education Policy