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Manage the district’s internal and external communications, which involves crisis communications, mass communications to families & staff, the monthly e-newsletter, the Rider Report, biannual print newsletters, social media content creation, photography, event planning, and website content creation and management.

Enforced the company’s Prohibited Items Policy as a content moderator.

Managed the nonprofit’s internal and external communications — which included monthly newsletters, press releases, press events and annual reports.

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Covered health care policy and laws from the Capitol newsroom. Focused on health disparities, epidemics, mental health, the state’s Medicaid program, especially its Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) program. Partnered with CT Public Radio and the New England News Collaborative to produce a multimedia story detailing how HIV continued to.

Danbury, Connecticut

Senior reporter covering health, human services and immigration at The News-Times, a daily newspaper serving greater Danbury.Won 2017 “Best Hard News/General Reporting Story” from the New England Society of News Editors for my coverage of “A Connecticut Doctor in Africa.”Attended Health Coverage Fellowship sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of.

Melville, New York, United States

Covered Oyster Bay, Glen Cove and Huntington, wrote about municipal issues, including budgets, development and politics; balanced enterprise pieces with daily briefs and stories. Regularly reported on breaking local and national stories, including Superstorm Sandy, Newtown, the Boston Marathon bombings and the Federal Reserve bombing FBI sting.

Columbia University Graduate School Of Journalism

Covered human rights for Uptown Radio, a student-produced radio show that aired weekly. Stories include the Duvalier case in Haiti; child soldiers; freedom of expression in Venezuela; and Queens County DA's pre-arraignment interrogation methods, which were dubbed unconstitutional and unethical by the NYCLU.

Columbia University

Fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, which offers a specialization in investigative journalism as part of the journalism school's graduate degree curriculum.Wrote 5,000 thesis on the justice system and reform efforts in Haiti. Traveled to Haiti for three weeks in January 2012, which included interviewing about a half dozen women.

Greenfield, Massachusetts

Reported on education, health, human services and the night cops beat. Covered a divisive mid-year school budget deficit that included layoffs and probes into whether there was criminal activity.Traveled to Haiti twice, wrote a multi-faceted piece that included post-earthquake coverage of sanitation, starvation, child mortality, especially in the tent.

Northampton, MA

Wrote for the news section, published about 60 articles.Covered array of topics, including car accidents, environmental violations, the local colleges and music and movie piracy.

Amherst, MA

Wrote for the news and arts sections.Worked two nights a week editing and doing layout at the student-run paper, including picking stories, photographs and writing headlines and cutlines.

Masters In Science, Newspaper And Investigative Reporting

Newspaper concentration, fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Covered Crown Heights, a neighborhood in.

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism, History

Activities and Societies: Assistant art editor and reporter at the student-run newspaper, the Daily Collegian Studied abroad at Queensland.