JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
| Freelance Journalist | October 2024-Present |
- Working to cover local news using data journalism, photojournalism and multimedia storytelling.
- Open to roles as an editor, fact checker, reporter, editor, data analyst and photographer.
- Training next generation of AI models at Outlier AI, evaluating and fact-checking AI responses
| Freelance Fact Checker | Earthjustice | January 2023-Present |
- Quarterly freelance fact checking for Earthjustice Stories, verifying claims by taking a deep dive into scientific literature about complex environmental problems like lead, PFAS and coal ash as well as how they are regulated.
| Editor | Dundalk Eagle | July 2024-October 2024 |
- As sole reporter and editor, covered Dundalk, Sparrows Point, Edgemere and Turner Station, Md., covering community events and investigating issues like plan to deepen private harbor and put possibly toxic dredge on island.
- Determined placement of own reporting and contributed stories for weekly print newspaper and on website.
- Increased Facebook reach by over 200% and content interactions by over 350% through multimedia first approach; increased Instagram traffic by over 2,000%; created first TikTok account for newspaper.
| Multimedia Editor | Stories Beneath the Shell | May 2022-December 2023 |
- Fact checked and edited stories about the University of Maryland from four rotating reporters using photo stories and explainers; oversaw reporting on sexual assault prevention, sexism in computer science department and dishonest student apartment marketing; 10-20 hours/week.
- Covered complex topics like student suicide, nonbinary gender marker and racial reckoning on campus; obtained exclusive interviews with university administration about Israel-Palestine conflict.
- July 2021-May 2022: General Assignment Editor, fact checked and edited over 100 pieces from freelance writers.
- Previously staff writer
| Steve Elkins Memorial Fellow | Washington Blade | May 2023-August 2023 |
- Covered Delaware and its LGBTQ+ community, reporting on legislation like ‘gay panic’ defense ban, community organizations, historic political candidates and events like a rosary outside an LGBTQ+ restaurant; 20-30 hours/week.
- Produced investigation into Trevor Project’s struggle to support queer youth after a gaping budget hole triggered massive layoffs that seemed to target dissidents, and led to an NLRB case. The piece gathered almost 1 million views and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
| Researcher | Local News Network at University of Maryland | January 2023-May 2023 |
- Identified hundreds of local news outlets across Maryland’s 23 counties for Phillip Merrill College of Journalism study documenting the rapid decline of local news outlets.
- Analyzed school district spending data for statewide project, finding massive sums paid to credit card companies, thousands spent on fancy watches for retiring employees and inconsistent spending disclosure requirements.
| Reporter | University of Maryland student publications | August 2020-July 2023 |
- Reported on campus issues for WMUC News, Stories Beneath the Shell and the Diamondback, including the renovation of a campus creek that would benefit Chesapeake Bay by removing pollutants like nitrogen and dangerous conditions for low-wage workers keeping the university’s quarantine and isolation housing afloat.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
| President and Founder | National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists chapter at the University of Maryland | December 2022-December 2023 |
- Led and founded university chapter of NLGJA, giving LGBTQ+ journalists a space to connect and learn; 5 hours/week.
| Multimedia Technician | Instructional Technologies | May 2022-December 2023 |
- Supervised and trained students who operate three cameras in classrooms to allow University of Maryland distance learners to participate in class, repaired Extron A/V system issues; 20 hours/week.
- Previously Technical Director, operating three cameras inside engineering classrooms
PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE
| Photographer | B1G 10+ | December 2022-April 2023 |
- Shot 4-8 sports games/month on Sony XDCAMs for broadcast on B1G Ten+ streaming network.
| Photojournalist | Stories Beneath the Shell | November 2020-December 2023 |
- Shot portraits and events for Stories Beneath the Shell, focusing on telling stories with only stills.
EDUCATION
| Bachelor of Arts in Journalism | University of Maryland, College Park | 2020-2023 |
- Jewish Studies minor
- Learned data journalism with R programming language
- Studied Israeli and Palestinian history
- Learned radio reporting
AWARDS
| Excellence in Student Journalism | National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists | July 2024 |
- For “Trevor Project in crisis amid financial woes, staff dissension, ‘union busting’: sources”, published Aug. 10, 2023
| High School Journalist of the Year | Maryland, Delaware, DC Press Association | 2020 |