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Greater Philadelphia Area

● Pitch, report and write daily news, features and enterprise articles for the web. Report, write and produce daily spots and features for FM.● Part of a team covering the COVID-19 pandemic, answering peoples’ questions about the vaccine. Award-winning stories on policy that banned gay men from donating blood, pandemic impacts on Black-owned physicians’ offices, and how lack of human touch during the pandemic impacted faith leaders.● Part of a team writing award-winning profiles that celebrated the lives lost to COVID-19. ● Part of a team covering Delaware news. Subject matter included politics, courts, social justice, education, public health, environment, and arts & culture. Continued coverage at the state legislature included efforts to legalize marijuana, gun control measures, and the Equal Rights Amendment. Reported on Delaware’s LLC laws that allowed Backpage.com to hold a business license while under federal investigation for sex trafficking. Spent several months traveling to rural Delaware to report on lack of access to clean drinking water. ● Won several awards, including for feature story on speed dating for seniors, series on sex trafficking in Delaware, and enterprise story on lack of compensation for wrongly convicted individuals. ● Part of a team of environmental reporters. Regularly covered news stories about PFAS contamination, regulations and lawsuits. Investigated data revealing high PFAS across Pennsylvania drinking water, including in schools. Reported enterprise stories, including a story about the anniversary of the deaths of seven people trapped in a flash flood, and a community impacted by vinyl chloride that leaked during a train derailment.● Civil rights and politics stories published in the Philadelphia Tribune several times a year. Storiesinclude an award-winning investigation about racial and gender disparities in the hiring, promotion and tenure system at the University of Delaware.

Annapolis, Md

• Pitched and wrote general assignment news and feature stories daily for these community newspapers and monthly magazine. Coverage included breaking news, courts, criminal justice, environment, public health, education, racial justice, arts & culture and lifestyle. Several stories picked up by AP, Washington Post, NY Daily News, Seattle Times, Huffington Post and Daily Mail UK. Highlights include a feature story on a 91-year-old man who ran a speakeasy-style bar in his home basement, which was picked up by several national media outlets. Story on a high school holding a mock graduation ceremony in the home of a student’s dying mother was picked up by international media outlets. Continued coverage on a hit-and-run that killed a teenage boy led to new hit-and-run legislation and efforts to build sidewalks. Only reporter granted an exclusive interview with a white military man acquitted of killing unarmed Black man. • Awarded 1st place from the MDDC Press Association contest in 2014 for a profile on crooner Ronnie Dove, who at 78 was retiring. Awarded 2nd place from MDDC Press Association contest in 2014 for a feature on a local jail adding methadone treatment for inmates for the first time in the state.

• Wrote one of the first stories on the decline of belly dance in Egypt, 2,000-word feature on the lack of funding for childhood cancer, 2,000-word feature on high HIV/AIDS rate in Harlem and efforts to increase education in the community.

Ms, Journalism

• M.S. in journalism, May 2012 • 6,000-word capstone project on high HIV/AIDS rate in Harlem. Excerpt published on TheAtlantic.com •.

Ba, English

Activities and Societies: The Review, E52 Theater, UD Figure Skating• B.A. in English with minors in film studies and journalism, May 2011.