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Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

● Part of a news team reporting on breaking stories and trending topics across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.● Written over 2,500 stories spanning multiple sections, including crime and court reporting, presidential election coverage, business features, historical explainers, shark sightings and weather forecasts, bringing over 9 million content views in over 2 years.● Build professional relationships with district attorneys' offices, the Worcester Police Department, National Weather Service meteorologists, political activists and business owners.● Develop new ways to report stories through Facebook Live streams and explainers on TikTok.

Santa Clarita, California, United States

● Led an alternative media news website covering news and growing diversity in the Santa Clarita Valley.● Expanded from a 3-person staff to an 8-person team of young, local journalists to increase coverage.● Assigned and published 144 stories across multiple sections, generating approximately 33,000 page views in one year. ● Authored a column, wrote 7 news stories on city council, recall election and families impacted by COVID-19.

Burbank, California, United States

● Assisted as a seasonal tour guide in providing an immersive tour about Warner Bros. Studios’ history of film.● Designed 90-minute tours, each with 12 guests, across 110 acres of backlots, archives and soundstages.● Took careful notes on studio history, buildings, sets and costumes worth incorporating into tour discussions.● Combined passion for film history and public speaking to authoritatively lead tours and answer all questions.

Santa Clarita, California, United States

● Worked with an award-winning newspaper focused on the Santa Clarita Valley’s diverse community.● Wrote over 420 stories spanning multiple sections, including breaking news, profiles and news features.● Formatted and scheduled an online newsletter sent via Mailchimp to the newspaper’s 280,000 subscribers.● Required close attention to a police scanner with shifting responsibilities among the staff, including driving to emergency sites, calling the police watch commander and relaying information to other staff writers working on the breaking news story.

Northridge, Ca

● Tasked to work with editors and writers on local, topical story ideas which we believed readers would respond to.● Edited, proofread and drafted – adhering to Associated Press Style – layouts for a physical print edition to be released at the end of the semester. ● Brainstormed on assigning two articles per writer and editor, as well as design layouts showcasing a photojournalism class's work on documenting homelessness in Los Angeles. ● Wrote two stories focused on campus matters: one focused on extreme politicization following the 2016 Presidential Election among students and interlopers from off-campus, the other highlighting a proactive English student with a passion for writing and transforming The Sundial's Opinion section into a more lyrical, creative page.

Northridge, Ca

● Contributed a profile centered around the prompt of "border journalism" as part of a senior tutorial course.● Pursued to write about California-based supporters of then-President Donald Trump and what they thought of his policy ideas regarding the southern border, Mexico's government and the proposed border wall.● Interviewed a representative of the California Republican Party to ask about the party's endorsement and praise for Trump's border policy items, noticing an unwavering loyalty seen today in his post-presidency.● Met with praise by professors and peers for taking an early approach at understanding why Americans voted the way they did in the 2016 Presidential Election.

Northridge, Ca

● Returned as a staff writer seeking credit to graduate by submitting almost 30 news stories, reviews and op-eds across multiple sections.● Covered campus news, including the closing of a crucial nursing student program and student Dreamers seeking legal aid following the 2016 election.● Also covered the initial proposal of campus hotel built on a surviving orange grove, book reviews, events in Los Angeles and the premiere of a foreign film in Simi Valley. ● Followed up on the newspaper’s two-year-old initial reporting on the student body government allegedly overspending on campus programs and events.● From 2014 to 2017, wrote 60 articles across 3 sections after transition from contributing writer to section editor, then reporter.

Northridge, Ca

● Established connections with over a dozen student groups and sought writing contributions to be published on a daily basis. ● Launched regular coverage focused on the 2016 Presidential Election; inaugurated the Opinion section’s first podcast “Tails From the Third Rail,” cohosted with the social media editor.● Worked with the social media editor to become the newspaper's de facto representatives, attending student group meetings to seek out contributors and columnists.● Orchestrated weekly meetings to gather staff consensus for editorial statements on major campus issues.

Northridge, Ca

● Oversaw the section with close attention to campus news, specifically the student government’s upcoming elections and the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.● Led a team of a dozen reporters and edited their approximately two dozen stories on a weekly basis before publishing.● Assumed leadership after the proper news editor began training to become editor-in-chief.● Developed an improved sense of news judgment with tremendous thanks to my initial editor-in-chief, who contextualized news in a way that ignited my close attention to matters outside my focus.

Northridge, Ca

● Hired as the youngest editor on staff and maintained a steady stream of publishing stories by student contributors.● Worked on layouts using Adobe InDesign and collaborated with the production team ahead of print publication.● Learned to assign and strategize stories for publishing and maintained constant contact with writers; helped with their writing along the way and mediate how they want to present their ideas or arguments.● Occasionally assigned to cover breaking news during campus emergencies, notably electrical fires in department buildings.