Resume

Work Experience

Business Reporter | The Washington Post | August 2024 — present

Business Reporting Intern | June 2024 — August 2024

• Reports news on corporate, financial and consumer trends as a general assignment business reporter with a constant eye for angles that make complex business topics accessible.
• Contributes to breaking news coverage of each day's biggest business news headlines, including the sentencing of a key Sam Bankman-Fried trial witness, Kroger-Albertsons merger proceedings, the largest IT meltdown in history and the Federal Reserve's first interest rate cut in four years.
• Pitches and executes ambitious enterprise coverage on topics ranging from personal finance and taxes to retail and agribusiness.
• Earned five front-page stories in the Sunday business section with coverage of how weight-loss drugs impact shopping habits, a small shrub that could save the U.S. rubber industry, the denim revival’s limited impact on a major jeans brand and more.
• Provided reporting and analysis to NPR's Up First/Morning Edition, SiriusXM Business Radio's Wharton Business Daily and regional radio shows in Washington, New York and Chicago.

Business Reporting Intern | Barron's | May 2023 — August 2023

• Reported news and feature stories for one of the country’s oldest financial investment publications.
• Focused coverage on commodity, retail and entertainment industries for an audience of U.S. investors, with experience reporting on company earnings, economic indicators, labor, corporate ESG and market moves.
• Aggregated and produced original reporting on each day's biggest business headlines for The Barron’s Daily newsletter, writing SEO-friendly copy for more than 250,000 subscribers.
• Participated in a 10-day business journalism training in New York City before the internship.

Data and Graphics Intern | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | June 2022 — August 2022

• Performed data analysis and mapping for daily stories on public safety, housing and transportation. Communicated findings as part of a team of roughly 20 reporters, editors and coders.
• Analyzed and collected data for award-winning Atlanta-area investor-owned housing investigation.
• Reported breaking news and enterprise stories on deadline in response to overturn of Roe v. Wade and Georgia’s six-week abortion ban going into effect.
• Participated in a 10-day IRE data journalism workshop at the University of Missouri before the internship.

Editor in Chief | The Diamondback | April 2023 — April 2024

Previous Roles: Assistant News Editor (May 2022 — April 2023)
Senior staff writer (May 2021 — May 2022)

• Edited stories for structure, clarity, accuracy and style five nights per week as editor in chief.
• Organized coverage and policies to support a newsroom of more than 100 student journalists and 14 desks.
• Spearheaded successful initiatives to double multimedia content output, revitalize daily newsletter, reach 10,000 Instagram followers and hire the newsroom’s first dedicated equity coordinator.
• Promoted to assistant news editor within one year on staff. Assisted 14 reporters’ writing, source-building and writing alongside co-editors. Conducted biweekly interviews with university president on the administration beat.
• Reported 2-3 stories per week on deadline that covered student housing, university admissions, community activism as staff writer during the 2021-22 school year.
• Pitched and reported dozens of articles in 2022 covering the Maryland General Assembly’s busiest legislative session in a decade, providing in-depth reporting on significant abortion, gun control and climate legislation.

Data Reporter | Howard Center for Investigative Journalism | January 2024 — May 2024

• Designed, programed and quality-tested news application showing every congressional trip taken since 2000 as part of ongoing investigation into congressional travel spending.
• Used Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Datawrapper API and Figma2HTML to workshop the front-end design for application.
• Utilized OpenAI API, ChatGPT 4 and Python to automate programming and extract congressional travel data from thousands of .pdf files.

Reporter | Capital News Service | January 2023 — May 2023

• Credentialed Capitol Hill reporter. Produced enterprise and daily reporting in Washington two days a week.
• Localized national politics to Maryland audiences with coverage of state delegation’s environmental, educational priorities. Trusted with Capital News Services’ breaking news reporting on Rep. Jamie Raskin’s cancer remission.

Editorial Intern | Montgomery Community Media | September 2022 — December 2022

• Pitched 6-10 local news articles per week on education, health, transportation, environmental issues and breaking news for hyperlocal, Emmy-winning publication covering Maryland's most populous county.

Weekly Roundup Producer | WMUC News | January 2021 — September 2022

• Coordinated a staff of about 15 reporters, anchors and copy editors to produce Weekly Roundup, the station's flagship news broadcast.
• Previously reported, edited and scripted one radio package per week on student government initiatives and campus protests.
• Contributed 3-5 readers per week on breaking news and pandemic-related public health updates.

Education

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland | August 2020—May 2024 | GPA: 4.0, summa cum laude

• Bachelor of Arts in journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism GPA: 4.0
• Bachelor of Science in information science, College of Information Studies GPA: 4.0
• Recipient of Global Communities 2-year Living Learning Program transcript notation.
• Selected as the journalism college’s 2023-24 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar, an honor given to each academic college’s most outstanding senior each year and Kappa Tau Alpha Top Scholar, an honor given to the graduating senior with the highest class rank.

Awards, Honors, Memberships

• Winner | Society of Professional Journalists Region II Mark of Excellence Award for Science/Environment/Climate Reporting | 2024
• Finalist | Society of Professional Journalists Region II Mark of Excellence Awards for In-Depth Reporting | 2023
• Finalist | Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association Best Education Reporting Award | 2023
• Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar | University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism | 2023—24
• Top Scholar Award | Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Honor Society | 2024
• Member | Investigative Reporters and Editors | 2022 — present
• Member | Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Honor Society | 2024 - present
• Member | University of Maryland Society of Professional Journalists | 2020—23
• Historian | University of Maryland National Press Photographers Association | 2021—22
• Director of Global Ambassadors | Global Communities Student Association | 2021—22
• Recipient | Michigan Interscholastic Press Association Spartan Award | 2017, 2019
• Recipient | James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship | August 2020
• Recipient | Philip Merrill College of Journalism Presidential Scholarship | August 2020

Skills

• Data, Design and Visuals: R, Python, SQL, JavaScript, Excel, HTML, CSS, InDesign, Lightroom, Datawrapper, Tableau, Flourish, Web Scraping, Premiere Pro, Audition, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD
• Digital Media: Arc, WordPress, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Canva, Google Suite, Microsoft Suite, shooting photo and video on DSLR cameras