Resume

MassLive                       Boston, Massachusetts // May 2024 – Present

Higher Education Reporter

  • Spearheaded months-long investigation about shuttered college campuses as a potential solution to the state’s socioeconomic disparities and housing crisis. (Parts 1, 2, 3)

  • Write breaking news and daily articles in a quick turnaround. Featured on WGBH.

  • Write exclusives about colleges closing, legislative actions, AI impacts, college cuts.

  • Used data visualization and multimedia photos and videos to support evidence-based journalism and creative storytelling.

Enterprise Reporter                                   May 2023 – May 2024 

  • Statewide enterprise reporter writing in-depth and breaking news about topics such as health, the environment, education and housing.

  • Report stories of how flooding was impacting farmers and the unhoused population across the state.

  • Investigate the state of higher education following the Congressional testimony & Oct. 7.

General Assignment Reporter (Intern)               June 2022 – August 2022

  • Spearheaded the breaking news team for Roe v. Wade coverage.

  • Managed and designed content for MassLive’s Instagram of 39.5k followers.

  • Profiled women who had abortions in Massachusetts in a series of feature pieces after Roe was overturned.

  • Investigated an Eversource pipeline going through several cities in Massachusetts and the potential environmental and residential impacts that could result from it. 

VTDigger           Burlington, Vermont // August 2022 – February 2023

General Assignment Reporter (Intern)

  • Focused mostly on politics, the environment and housing.

  • Investigated the housing challenges for formerly incarcerated individuals in Vermont.

  • Pitched and executed a feature piece on a home sharing program in Vermont that pairs individuals who are seeking affordable housing with those who are aging or need additional help at home.

  • Broke news about UVM Home Health and Hospice ending 24/7 care for individuals with mobility impairments.

Ms. Magazine                                                                             New York City, New York // June 2021 – May 2022

Editorial Fellow       

  • Broke news in a feature piece about a first-of-its-kind program between high school students and incarcerated women, which led another high school to adopt a similar initiative. 

  • Focused on global health and poverty, interviewed youth advocates, politicians and Indigenous activists. 

  • Served as interim social media editor, managing 160k Twitter followers, 41k Instagram followers and 30k newsletter readers.

Freelance Writer                       Remote // August 2021 – May 2022

  • Pitched & wrote for PBS’s Next Avenue, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network & The Daily Hampshire Gazette. 

AWARDS & OTHER EXPERIENCE

  • 4-time New England Newspaper & Press Association finalist, First Place for Public Writing Amplify Competition, selected participant in the Poynter’s Covering Jails & Prison Reform, Elizabeth Montagu Prize for best essay on women, Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize.

EDUCATION

Smith College, Bachelor of Arts

Major: English Language & Literature, Minor: Sociology, Concentration: Poetry