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New York, NY

Report spot news and features on tight deadlines for Marketplace and Marketplace Morning Report.

Greater Boston Area

Projects for The Boston Globe and Wondery, Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting, Vox's daily news podcast "Today, Explained."

Woods Hole, MA

Six-month reporting fellowship covering climate change and the environment. Reported regular feature stories and spots for air and online. Stories aired on WCAI and WGBH.

Washington DC

Managed all aspects of production for the NPR Politics Podcast. Made decisions about content, wrote scripts, directed and engineered taping, edited and mixed podcast. Produced NPR Politics live shows. Field produced for reporters. Wrote stories for NPR.org.

Boston

Produced and edited host interviews on a wide range of issues for a fast-paced, daily national news program. Pitched ideas, booked guests, wrote scripts, and cut tape under tight deadline pressure. Produced live breaking news coverage. Researched, developed, and produced in-depth, multi-part series. Edited producer scripts and interviews. Field producer.

New York/Washington D.C.

WNET/New York Public Media. New York, N.Y.Part of a two-person team developing, reporting, and conceptualizing an 18-month multi-platform national public media initiative on poverty in America.America Abroad, America Abroad Media/PRI, Washington D.C.Conceptualized, researched, produced and mixed monthly documentary radio program on international affairs.

Portland, Maine Area

Managed production of Maine Things Considered, the station’s daily radio newsmagazine. Reported and produced regular news spots and features. Edited stories and filled in as newscaster.

Pitched segments, booked and pre-interviewed guests for daily news and public affairs call-in program. Researched show topics, wrote notes, promos, scripts and web copy. Line produced show. Reported spots and enterprise stories. Cut interviews and podcasts, mixed pieces. Co-produced several hours a day of live special coverage the week following Tropical.

Previously: Freelance Associate Producer, June-July 2009; Morning Intern, February-May 2009.Pitched segments, booked and pre-interviewed guests. Wrote scripts and notes for hosts. Cutinterviews. Produced in control room during broadcast. Worked early, midday and evening shifts.

London/Paris

Reported and wrote for soFeminine.co.uk. Commissioned and edited articles from freelancers.Posted content online and managed website. Did French-English translations.

Selected for fellowship at ABC’s London bureau. Covered news desk, pitched stories, wrote for abcnews.com. Wrote and produced World View, an international news program for ABC NewsNow. Went on shoots to Perugia, Casablanca and Berlin for World News and Good Morning America.

Covered breaking news, wrote more than 250 articles on education, government, lifestyles, business, and crime. Shot photographs and video, blogged and updated website. Copy-edited paper. Articles picked up by Metro West Daily News, Newton TAB, Brookline TAB, Cambridge Chronicle.

M.S., Journalism

M.S. Journalism. Graduated with honors. Awarded radio workshop prize.

B.A., American Studies

Junior year abroad at the Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I, Aix-en-Provence, France.