Responsible for breaking news, investigative reporting and editorial leadership across a variety of stories and beats for The Reader, a monthly newsmagazine in Omaha, Nebraska with a circulation of 16,500 print copies. I’ve published more than 300 stories as well as started a daily newsletter, podcast, community engagement initiatives, grant-funded reporting projects and collaborations with local and national media organizations. As an editor, I’ve helped writers win awards in investigative, solutions and feature reporting. I’ve also overseen the paper’s transition from print to online-focused journalism including:
Contributed reporting on topics such as politics, mass shootings and crime trends.
Reported with Nebraska’s first nonprofit newsroom on stories like Native American mothers suing their rural school district for cutting their childrens’ hair, which appeared in USA Today and influenced state legislation.
As a freelance reporter I’ve had the opportunity to cover human interest stories like a project to save tribal culture through cultivation.
Covered environmental issues, solutions-based journalism and daily stories through qualitative and data reporting in the Twin Cities.
Generated my own stories including features on a refugee who wrote a book about surviving genocide and two gay business owners fighting to make a home in a conservative small town. I also covered politics, events and other daily news stories.
Covered education, business, local government, courts, crime and general features in Pasco and Hernando counties north of Tampa. I wrote stories about a booming ice center, local Olympic-level skeet shooter and jail programs that give inmates a second chance at life.
In running the independent student newspaper, I manage 30 writers, run weekly budgets and coach stories like a recent investigative package about off-campus apartment complexes and their mistreatment of students.
With a small team of enterprise reporters I covered LGBT issues, race relations and politics. I also took over the transportation beat, covering highway deaths, transportation taxes and alternative transit. In my 10 weeks with the paper I had two sunday stories, 10 either front-page or metro visual stories and more than 220,000 page views.
Worked as a news intern, writing general features in addition to breaking news.
In addition to responding to newsworthy crime, combing through incident reports and communicating with duty commanders, as the intern I also write feature stories.
As a general assignment intern at the Norfolk Daily News I reported and photographed City Council meetings, a small town trying to recover from a tornado, the death penalty in Nebraska and more across the 22 county coverage area.
I wrote over 100, features previews, opinion pieces and news stories including an investigative piece that led to a police investigation of UNL’s top honor society,the Innocents Society.
Majors: Journalism and Economics. Recipient of George Beadle, Oldfield and Olenberger scholarships.
Intermediate, experienced in finding, cleaning and analyzing data using programs such as Jupyter Notebooks and Excel. Also experienced in creating data visualizations through code and programs like Adobe Illustrator.
Advanced, can put together multimedia projects, design graphics and edit photos.
Advanced, experienced in taking photos with either a DSLR or iPhone.
Intermediate, experienced in live tweeting, live streaming and blogging
Intermediate, experienced in building websites, using code to analyze and visualize and building basic programs.