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Minneapolis, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Features reporter

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Write about news in Iowa for a national audience; contribute to special sections; promote local reporters' work to be picked up by USA Today

Des Moines, Iowa Area

General assignment, breaking news

Work has appeared in the New York Daily News, Time.com, the Village Voice, the Newark Star-Ledger, Time Out New York, CNTraveler.com, WNYC/New York Public Radio, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and other news organizations. TV recaps for XfinityTV.

Reported on breaking news at the scene of newsworthy events, ranging from culture to crime. Wrote short Web and print features.

Collected, cut and wrote around audio for newscasts. Reported on municipal news and culture. Wrote accompanying Web features.

Stonewall Inn

New York’s annual “Golden Girls” drag tribute party

Wrote and edited hundreds of music, theater and LGBT listings for calendar section of 250,000-circ. alternative newsweekly. Pitched and wrote two to three short arts features for weekly “Voice Choices” section. Wrote one of the music blog’s most popular seasonal columns on “American Idol.” Packaged the “Atlantic City Guide,” the Voice’s tri-annual.

Oversaw website design and content, and wrote and edited English-language marketing materials--including weekly newsletter and annual grants brochure--for German higher-education organization.

Managed more than 100 freelance writers, photographers, editorial staff and interns. Devised, wrote and/or assigned and edited all content for monthly 30,000-circ. national publication on lesbian issues. Oversaw production, design and proof inspection.

Proofread, fact-checked and wrote arts and dining listings targeting tourists for IN New York and WHERE New York magazines. Pitched and wrote travel and real estate items for front of the book.

Mined the museum's theater photography archive and wrote copy for theater and religion section of exhibition on electricity's effect on the city, "Transformed by Light: The New York Night."

Conceived, designed and translated exhibition materials for German museum and historic site. Taught lessons on Holocaust history and Jewish culture at regional schools. Conducted research on the fates of former Jewish residents of this German town.

Researched, wrote new listings and fact-checked Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco guidebooks.

Master Of Science, Magazine Concentration

Activities and Societies: Columbia University Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association chapter presidentCoursework on long-form writing, beat.

Ba, History, Africana Studies, Religious Studies

Activities and Societies: Coursework on travel writing, international politics, metropolitan studies, European history, computer science.