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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

• Report on New Orleans music and cultural communities along with occasional coverage of housing issues. Write daily news stories for Gambit’s website as well as longer features for the weekly print edition. Responsible.
• Use Gambit’s social media accounts, including Twitter and Facebook, to share content and engage with readers.
• Manage and update Gambit’s website by uploading and formatting content from other writers.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Planned, assigned, and oversaw the production of RED, an arts and entertainment weekly published by The Advocate newspaper. Managed freelance writers and edited submitted articles.
• Covered Baton Rouge’s music, dining, film and cultural communities. Wrote daily breaking news articles as well as features, album and restaurant reviews, and other content for both print and online platforms.
• Worked closely with The Advocate’s features staff and occasionally Metro desk for coverage of Baton Rouge cultural events.

Rochester, New York Area

• Cover news in Rochester, especially about issues related to housing and immigration.
• Plan, assign, and oversee the production of the alternative weekly’s Music section. Manage one staff employee, freelance writers, and interns. Edit submitted articles.
• Write regular articles, breaking news, music reviews, and features. Responsible for one cover story per quarter.
• Use CITY’s social media accounts, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, to share content, grow an audience, and engage with readers.
• Lead CITY’s 2018, yearlong coverage of Frederick Douglass’s bicentennial year.

Rochester, New York Area

• Planned, assigned, and oversaw the production of the alternative weekly’s Arts & Entertainment sections. Managed three staff employees, freelance writers, and interns, and edited submitted articles.
• Coordinated and edited articles for the publication’s special sections, including summer, fall, holiday, and winter guides, and Best of Rochester competition.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Author freelance pieces for newspapers, magazines, and online publications. Highlights include: 225 Magazine, LION Magazine, The Gainesville Times, The Times-Picayune, American Press (Lake Charles, La.), and The.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Managed the alternative weekly’s Arts & Entertainment sections. Worked with freelance writers,photographers, and interns, and edited submitted content.
• Wrote two to four articles per issue, along with shorter news briefs and miscellaneous content.
• Assisted Editor-in-Chief to coordinate final production for each issue and plan the week's cover story and image. Performed Editor-in-Chief duties when need arose.
• Other duties included social media posting and coordinating DIG’s annual concert, INDIEcent Exposure.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Completed intensive, LSU capstone course. Wrote and took photos as part of the Manship School News Service catering to most major newspapers and television stations in Louisiana and Mississippi.
• Articles published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge), The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), The American Press (Lake Charles), The Town Talk (Alexandria), The News Star (Monroe), The Shreveport Times, WAFB and WBRZ (Baton.
• Team leader of subgroup researching cases of wrongful conviction in Louisiana. Member of subgroup researching 1960s FBI civil rights cold cases in conjunction with The Concordia Sentinel, a finalist for the 2011.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Managed content production for the student-produced magazine, with direct supervision over writers. Edited the publication’s feature stories and smaller content. Updated Wordpress Blog and handled the magazine’s social.
• Responsible for writing at least one long-form feature story per issue as well as content for smaller departments.

Waterbury, Connecticut

• Covered general news across western Connecticut for the daily newspaper. Responsible for daily spot news and regular long-form feature articles.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Covered news as part of the paper’s St. Tammany Parish Bureau. Responsible for reporting on the governments of Abita Springs, Folsom, and Madisonville as well as miscellaneous news and features across St. Tammany and.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Authored at least two feature articles per week as well as reviews of new music or films.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Journalism

Activities and Societies: Member of the Society of Professional Journalists. A founder of the Psi chapter of Beta Upsilon Chi, a national.

Education record

Attended the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, for six months (Jan. 2010 - July 2010) as part of LSU’s bilateral exchange.