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California, United States

Covering California politics, which includes tracking bills through the legislature, monitoring the budget process to see how California leadership sets its priorities, and civic engagement and democracy -- redistricting, elections and the ways in which Californians seek out and harness power.

El Segundo, California, United States

On the team that coordinates and strategizes the best digital presentation and delivery of news that brings the world to California, and California to the world. This includes monitoring and coordinating news coverage, running the homepage, crafting and sending alerts, story layouts and headlines, as well as digital training, and evaluating and working to.

Through this fellowship made possible through IRE, I conducted an investigation into the state of campus sexual assault in 2020 -- building on the work of the Center for Public Integrity's 2009 investigation into the barriers students faced when trying to report on sexual assault and the lack of consequences imposed.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Leading digital strategy for this nonprofit investigative newsroom, including the redesign of our new website and a CMS overhaul, producing our weekly newsletter, and overall strategy and layout for major investigative series, as well training on SEO best practices, writing headlines, and monitoring our metrics to see how we can better engage our audience.

Los Angeles / DC

I worked as the swing shift editor for the Times' digital hub team, which included (but was not limited to) managing breaking news coverage, including coordinating with staff and international bureaus, ensuring story distribution across social media and sending mobile and email alerts. As the D.C. bureau digital team liaison, I helped run our politics.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

As an intern at the business desk of this Tribune. Co. owned daily newspaper, wrote A1 stories on the increase of sales at local international grocery stores during Ramadan despite it being a month of fasting, and a feature on the $30 million restoration of the city’s iconic downtown landmark, Travelers Tower. I also covered the retail beat, with stories.

San Rafael, California

Managing websites, e-mail newsletters and social media for the company's four publications (Correctional News, School Construction News, Green Building News and HC+O News)Web analytic monitoring and reporting Overseeing production processes and proofreading for both print and digital publications Reporting and writing news and feature articles, producing.

-Proofreading, formatting and distributing press releases for companies and groups, including quarterly earnings, conference calls and other financial disclosure statements -Quality assurance of processed press releases-Coordinating workflow among the company's editorial department, as well as cooperation with sales and account management.

- City Council beat reporting for Arcadia, Temple City, Sierra Madre, Pasadena and Monrovia. - Development stories in the city, as part of larger regional and state trends- Business profiles, feature stories and crime reporting

-Fully established the Development and Capital Projects beat for the newspaper, which included covering city council meetings, planning meetings, zoning board meetings and major construction projects-Investigative pieces identifying major zoning and landmark issues in development in the city of Berkeley-Covered both general city and university news.

-Covered business news, such as innovative business strategies and environmental practices, and development stories, such as major housing projects being built in the area-Wrote feature news stories on community news for the daily newspaper’s weekly edition-Created broadcast news stories for the website-Wrote police blotters and wrote crime stories

Master Of Science (M.S.), Journalism -- Newspapers

Bachelor Of Arts, Mass Communications, Minor In Public Policy