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United States

Freelance journalist, copy editor, and SEO copy writer based in Southeast Asia.

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Greater New York City Area

• NY bureau chief, leading coverage on New York’s innovative energy reform• Broke news on GE’s supply chain; BlackRock’s coal investments; oil & gas tax loopholes• Led New York business / finance beat, which I designed and launched, covering 100+ public energy companies for daily news service• Led daily edition 80+ times; both dailies and features for digital-only platform• Pioneered my company’s coverage in corporate finance, commodity markets, anti-trust, bankruptcy, and taxes• In June 2016, interviewed and profiled Richard Kauffman, New York State’s energy “czar”• Appeared twice on MSNBC’s “Greenhouse” to discuss oil prices, carbon risk to portfolios

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Landed exclusive with Energy Secretary Steven Chu after 2010 midterm election• Authored 6 original series, e.g. on electric vehicles, cutting-edge energy research at MIT, and California’s embattled high-speed rail project• Bylined 400 dailies and features for ClimateWire; 140 appeared in The New York Times online, 30 in Scientific American online

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Wrote original Web content, including 1000-word feature on “medical tourism”• Pitched, reported, and co-produced 2 ½ minute story for Intern Edition, NPR's intern-created radio show• Produced photo slideshow for Intern Edition website• Trained in collecting sound, broadcast writing, voicing, and mixing

San Jose, California

• Received 5 1A bylines, including 2 1A centerpieces, despite 40-person layoff in newsroom• Broke enterprise story on the end of California’s decade-old nurse shortage• Filed breaking news for Web with 30-minute turnaround

San Mateo, California

• General assignment reporting for small metro daily: cops, city hall, schools, community events, obituaries.• Authored "Birth of a Science" feature, headlining on the second day of the Times' three-day series "A Shakeup of Epic Proportions" on the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The series won the first-place Peninsula Press Club prize for a series by a daily under 75,000 circulation.• Reported 500- to 900-word general assignment stories including city hall, schools, community events; covered North County beat for one month.• Shot digital video for feature story "Kid elk-caller racks up another trophy" and wrote 500-word story about 10-year-old elk-calling champion.• Performed "night cops" duties: wrote briefs, stories, and obituaries up to 450 words; made cop calls.

M.A., International Economics, International Policy (Energy)

Coursework in climate policy, energy technology, and energy markets. Additional coursework in micro- and macro-economics, as well.

B.A., Mass Communications And English

Magna cum laude.

Education record