Senior project manager and UX researcher. Award-winning multimedia journalist. Specializes in local data journalism, perinatal mental health, user empathy. Passion for issues related to families and health equity. Enjoys organizing teams and collaborating across disciplines. Committed to anti-bias and antiracist learning.Currently: Launched Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge local news project; manages weekly newsletter production delivering data and high-quality news to people living in each of Los Angeles’ 110 diverse neighborhoods.Manages Facebook Journalism Project-funded local data pilot with two newsrooms: WRAL and NOLA.com.Conducts ongoing user research in Los Angeles with neighborhood councils, law enforcement, students and other stakeholders; communicate insights to team leads on a weekly basis.Also: photographer, radio producer and print reporter specializing in topics related to mental illness, maternal health and health disparities. And: Recipient of one of eight US-based Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism in 2017-18, and spent the 2016-17 academic year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.Work has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) STEM story project. I have contributed radio, video, photography and written stories to KQED Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, the San Jose Mercury News, the New York Times and other media outlets. Past: Multimedia journalist at the Center for Health ReportingPresident of the national organization Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) Canoe expedition leader for young women, including a solo-led 45-day river trip in the Canadian Arctic.