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Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Managed, coached and edited an award-winning team producing high-quality, data-driven investigations with a focus on inequality. Provided strategic leadership and vision in alignment with Public Integrity’s mission and goals. Helped develop and execute an internal story-pitch process and other systems such as specific project checklist and timeline for projects to create efficient workflows that track story impact. Fostered a collaborative and inclusive working environment that empowers staff to engage with partner newsrooms. Developed successful partnerships with Univision, Futuro Media and NBC to distribute award-winning content in English and Spanish across multiple platforms, including podcast. Recruited, retained, and developed talent to create opportunities for professional growth and skill-building.

South Florida

Collaborated with the Center for Investigative Journalism of Puerto Rico to produce investigations about immigration, Hurricane Maria and COVID-19. Produced stories published by DCReport.org, El Nuevo Herald, Feet in 2 Worlds online magazine among other publications. Provided research and reports for Bloomberg’s legal team based in New York and the Miami’s bureau. Mentored, managed and edited investigations supported by Investigative Editing Corps. Trained journalists on data and investigative reporting in the U.S. and Latin America. Adjunct Professor teaching an investigative reporting course at Barry University.

Miramar, Fl

Researched, managed and produced data-driven investigations covering government waste, education, consumer issues and other topics for a five-people team. Managed multiple-projects from conception to publishing to ensure the team met goals and deadlines. Conducted surveillance and hidden-camera investigations as needed for stories after legal approval. Trained producers and reporters on digital investigative tools such as excel spreadsheets, simple website-data scraping, the Wayback Machine, how to search the web efficiently, open records laws and other tools available to use on breaking news stories.

Miami, Fl

Created and co-founded an award-winning independent investigative nonprofit publication in the Sunshine State. Hired, managed staff, and led the budget and fundraising efforts. Worked with partners, including the Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald, CBS, NBC and NPR to produce award-winning bilingual journalism in the public interest published across multi-media platforms. Built relationships with local community foundations in Florida and startups in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Used data analysis and investigative skills to write stories covering businesses, scams and loopholes, leading to changes that helped consumers. Worked with online videographers to produce multi-media packages, including video, Google Maps and searchable databases. Covered Miami-Dade County and its massive bureaucracy on stories including controversial political figures, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and major breaking news.

Reported on politics, school construction, management, budgets, growth and public safety and the relationship between these issues and student performance in low-income school districts. Wrote about four politically contentious school districts focusing stories on public funds waste, public officials’ corruption and how that affected classrooms and students.

Covered county and city governments in Darlington County. Wrote enterprise stories about economic development and growth using Census data. Won local and state awards for investigative stories illustrating loopholes in the law and problems with the hog farm permit filling process.

Bachelor Of Arts, Communications With Emphasis In Print Journalism

Activities and Societies: Wrote for the newspaper USC Today and held numerous positions including photo editor.

Associate'S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies