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Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Norfolk, Virginia

• Focused on environment/climate change, housing and social justice issues for Eastern Virginia’s NPR station, producing daily, breaking news and feature content • Produced and edited series about sea level rise around Virginia funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting • Produced and reported video for PBS NewsHour and NOVA about coastal Virginia farmers dealing with sea level rise• Regularly contributed spots for NPR’s newscast and features for national shows All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Here & Now; broke national story for NPR about cities that don’t take full advantage of federal program that discounts flood insurance • Filled in for News Director as editor of all digital and radio stories; helped coordinate daily audio content with local Morning Edition and All Things Considered hosts

Miami, Florida

• Regularly reported and produced multiple stories a day for South Florida NPR station WLRN; helped lead the station’s political reporting and coverage of instability in Venezuela • Stories ran statewide and nationally, including one for Marketplace Morning Report about Miami’s affordable housing shortage• Helped produce local newsmagazines and weekly show, South Florida Roundup • Contributed reporting and research for podcasts by Gimlet Media and Wondery podcast network

Miami, Florida

• Worked as a full-time general assignment reporter to pitch, report and produce features and daily stories, including wraps, voicers and cut-and-copy newscast scripts • Helped produce WLRN’s midday talk shows, Sundial and The Florida Roundup• Worked with digital team to create online and social media content

Durham, N.C.

• Oversaw staff of 150 editors, reporters, multimedia producers and photographers for Duke’s independent student newspaper • Reported, managed daily news production and served as a final editor for all print, digital news, audio, video and social media content • Wrote investigative story about Duke men’s basketball student managers that was honorable mention for the Melcher Award for Duke’s best journalism in 2017

Durham, N.C.

• Helped oversee sports department for Duke’s independent student newspaper: assign tasks, edit,fact-check, coordinate travel for reporting assignments and mentor over 25 writers• Design paper layout on InDesign, manage website and promote content on social media• Remained Staff Writer for the News Department (2015 – Present) o Compiled more than 200 bylines

Durham, N.C.

• Covered breaking news and edited stories • Football beat writer and covered men and women’s basketball, baseball, soccer • Helped manage social media

Durham, N.C.

• Covered varsity sports including women's basketball, baseball and women's soccer

Boston, Mass.

• Reported, wrote copy and edited sound for half-hour and hourly newscasts about local, state and national affairs • Wrote and reported for WBUR.org• Used Hearken and Listening Post to crowdsource story ideas• Monitored web traffic analytics, drafted Twitter posts and covered events using Snapchat

Durham, N.C.

• Periodically researched, pitched stories and fact-checked scripts for the podcast, “Criminal”

Durham, N.C.

• Identified and recorded factual claims made in 2016 political campaign ads and sent claims to national fact-checkers• Tracked trends in campaign ads and composed articles analyzing current and evolving trends• Assisted Bill Adair, Duke’s Knight Chair in Computational Journalism, and Mark Stencel, visiting professor and co-director of the Reporters’ Lab, to develop reproducible methods of improved fact-checking

Durham, N.C.

• Reported and contributed as part of a news writing course at Duke

Miami, Fla.

• Pitched story ideas for the online website of Fusion's show, "Soccer Gods" • Researched and wrote scripts for videos streamed on Facebook and Twitter• Managed social media, including Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook

Miami, Fla.

• Created after-school tennis program in the Liberty City area of Miami to teach basics oftennis while encouraging responsibility, positive thinking and self-worth