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New York, United States

NYU Engineering School

Developing infrastructure design, economic and legal/regulatory frameworks to maximize speeds and throughput on current US commuter and intercity rail services.

- Author a bi-weekly column for NYMag's Curbed section that examines the intersection between politics, governance and pressing urban needs, particularly our transit systems and the MTA.- I've also contributed to Streetsblog and Vital City

Greater New York City Area

- Enterprise-focused coverage of the transit, housing and social services beats, while making daily contributions to coverage of City Hall and Albany - Investigation on Second Ave Subway station designs for East Harlem extension forced an MTA review that found $300 million in savings (and counting) - Revealed ballooning size of $16.8 billion Penn Station.

Austin, Texas Area

Researcher, reporter for joint Buzzfeed/The Trace investigation

Austin, Texas Area

- Executed aggressive enterprise while contributing to the paper’s daily coverage of politics and criminal justice - Anchored coverage of Hurricane Harvey as paper’s Houston correspondent, Uber and City Council elections, Austinite’s murder in Greece and the fatal stabbing attack on the University of Texas campus - Exposed how a non-profit co-founded by a.

Greater New York City Area

- Contributed to The Trace, an investigative news non-profit focused on covering gun violence in the U.S. - Rewrite at The New York Post — directed runners, worked with editors and photographers, took feeds from the field and wires to write stories for online and print

Greater New York City Area

I was a reporter on The News'​ data and projects team, where I worked with on major investigations, helped beat reporters integrate data into their daily and Sunday stories, and built the newsroom's data library. Investigations included: - An examination of 179 on-duty NYPD officer-involved homicides that found that only three cases were prosecuted.

San Antonio, Texas Area

I covered various aspects of state and local government for more than three years as a reporter at the San Antonio Express-News. While there I wrote about the census and demographics, the state's ongoing (and seemingly never-ending) redistricting and Voter ID litigation; covered county government, San Antonio's two massive city-owned electric and water.

Austin Bureau

From January to May, I was an intern for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News in their shared Austin bureau. I was hired by the Express-News in May, starting in July. The Houston Chronicle kept me on as a freelancer through June to cover the first and only special session of the 82nd Legislature. While at the bureau: - I set up the bureau's.

Over the course of four years (though I didn't work there every semester), I held a variety of positions at The Daily Texan, the University of Texas' student run newspaper, including: Senior Reporter: State Gov/Politics; Wire Editor; Copy Editor; GA reporter/Cops reporter.