I’m building an active base of pro-housing residents throughout L.A. County, with a focus on the San Gabriel Valley and northeast part of the county. I recruit, train, and manage volunteers and volunteer committees to take ownership of tasks and do work to lead the organization forward. I build relationships with advocacy organizations to coordinate on pro-housing outreach goals

Teaching exercise and meditation to residents of transitional housing.

I oversee several stories each week, while contributing food, music and arts coverage—plus cover stories and special sections. I manage freelancers, develop story ideas and mentor young writers. I also help manage social media accounts, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

At Santa Cruz Weekly, I provided news, food and music coverage. I sought out fresh story ideas and looked for interesting angles on old, familiar ones. I also assembled the newspaper's movie showtimes, handled some online content and helped manage our social media accounts.

I have helped many students realized their full potential. Often the most difficult part is a helping a young writers realize how much they already know.

I moved to Portland about—let's say—six months before it was the cool thing to do. I found a night job at a grocery store and secured a coveted internship at the town's Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly. I blogged and wrote print articles for WW, while checking the paper's "Tip Line" and fielding story ideas from the community. Lucky for me, then-managing editor Hank Stern—was a never-ending fount of journalism wisdom and experience. He let me pick his brain on news judgement, snappy writing and solid structure.

I worked for UC Santa Cruz's student-run paper as a campus reporter. I soon advanced to editor of the city news desk and later to managing editor. In just over a year, I learned the trade of journalism and climbed ranks to nearly the top of the paper. In addition to editing and writing, I learned how to work with others, develop young talent, speak and write persuasively and even stand up for my principles during a staff meeting.

I began at GT by writing news blogs about UC Santa Cruz. I then transitioned into a reporting internship and later a brief freelancing stint before moving away from Santa Cruz for a short while.