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My team covers the national education landscape and I work with dozens of USA TODAY education network reporters across the country on enterprise projects. This impactful work reaches hundreds of thousands of readers every day.

The Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University supports four fellows during the academic year to study and produce significant works of education journalism that marry research with in-depth reporting.

Worked across the publication’s ever-expanding policy news teams, elevating content and launching new areas of coverage and types of content for consumer and subscriber audiences.Founding editor, POLITICO Nightly, originally intended to capture developments about the pandemic both domestic and global.Shepherded the launch of The Long Game, a newsletter.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Launched five new areas of European policy coverage and policy tools, hired reporters from across the continent and helped POLITICO generate nearly 50 percent of its revenue from its subscription news services by the end of 2018.Oversaw the reporting and editing of countless policy news-focused special reports on topics including sustainable power, intense.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Launched several new areas of European policy coverage, often acting as the editor of those sections until staffing was completed. The verticals included must-read subscriber-only coverage of Brexit. Edited articles about European politics and worked on a number of special projects and events including several magazine-style policy news packages.

Quickly promoted to oversee all of POLITICO's subscription news services and tools.

Founding editor of POLITICO Pro Education, a subscription news service dedicated to covering the intersection of education politics and policy in Washington and beyond. Expanded POLITICO's coverage of education politics for a general audience.

Reported on school violence, discipline, nutrition and health at the federal, state and local level, in addition to covering the intricacies of special education policy and practice. Published a four-part series on rethinking traditional discipline methods including in- and out-of-school suspension.

Extensively covered a calamity created by the housing boom: the use of imported drywall made in China that made some expensive new homes unlivable with little recourse for homeowners.

Covered the Broward School District, the sixth-largest school district in the country and the Miami-Dade School District, the fourth-largest in the country, as part of a team of reporters.

Covered the Palm Beach County School District, Palm Beach County Commission and St. Lucie County School DistrictWrote a column about cooking for one called "Single Serving"Restaurant reviewer

Covered the Polk County school district