RESUME

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

Environmental Reporter
The Arizona Republic/azcentral | USA Today Network — Aug. 2020 to present
  • Produce enterprise and long-form stories by investigating pressing environmental issues in Arizona and the Southwest region
  • Co-manage the Environmental Reporting Team's Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts by producing daily posts and engaging with audience members on these social media platforms
  • Coordinate multimedia work between the environmental and visuals team and contribute to multimedia content as a photographer and videographer

​Reporting Fellow
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting — Nov. 2019 to present​
  • Reported on the resurgence of leprosy in Brazil by taking a critical look at the lack of resources available to the thousands of patients affected by the disease
  • Created data visualization, photography and videography to accompany all published content
  • Wrote field notes expanding on the intricacies of the disease, such as antibiotic resistance and societal stigma
  • Worked with translators and fixers while reporting in leprosy colonies across the state of Pará, which has had the most new cases over the last 25 years​

News Reporter
North Carolina Local News Workshop — June to July 2020​
  • Covered the impact of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement on North Carolinian people, communities and businesses
  • Produced in-depth coverage and enterprise reporting — in both English and Spanish — on pressing complex issues such as housing evictions, police mutual aid agreements and reparation movements
  • Filled the reporting gaps of local media outlets by producing event coverage and spot news reporting for digital, print, radio and social media platforms
  • Trailblazed a model for the Local News Intern Corps, which future reporters will follow, by setting a newsroom structure and reporting standard

Managing Editor — Sept. to Dec. 2018 & May 2019 to May 2020
Multimedia Journalist — Sept. 2016 to May 2020
Elon News Network                                             
  • Coordinated the daily content assignment of ENN’s website and newspaper during COVID-19 by managing nearly 30 reporters across a dozen states
  • Oversaw the content assignment of ENN’s award winning newspaper, The Pendulum, which publishes approximately 30 additions a year
  • Contributed to ENN’s online and print content with breaking news stories, features, photography and hand-coded websites for enterprise projects
  • Copy edited all sections of the newspaper: News, Lifestyle, Opinions and Sports

Investigative Reporter
​Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow — Jan. to Aug. 2019
  • Investigated national wildfire mitigation, suppression and recovery practices, culminating in an online multimedia story and documentary
  • Actively covered the Woodbury Fire in the Superstition Wilderness, which became the fifth largest wildfire in Arizona state history
  • ​Reported on post-disaster power recovery trends culminating in an online multimedia story with photo, written and infographic elements 

News Correspondent & Staff Photographer
Morocco World News — March to May 2019
  • Consistently covered the contractual teachers’ movement, which became one of the largest and longest educational strikes in Moroccan history
  • Reported and photographed daily and breaking news in Rabat, such as pious visits, royal announcements and desert marathons
  • ​Traveled and filed stories from four Moroccan cities to increase the organization's national presence and coverage

Documentarian
The Imagining the Internet Center — Aug. to Nov. 2018 & 2019
  • Traveled to Paris, France to document the 13th annual Internet Governance Forum for national research on the evolution of the Internet
  • Partnered with The Internet Society to cover the fifth Internet Hall of Fame in San José, Costa Rica for historical documentation 

​Communications Intern
Save the Children Jordan — June to Aug. 2018
  • Photographed and reported on the experiences of Syrian refugees living in Zaatari and Azraq Refugee Camps, by covering international visits
  • Created press releases and content for SCJ’s multiple social media platforms 

Contributing Writer
​Town & Country Philippines — May to Aug. 2016 & 2017
  • Crafted more than two dozen lifestyle articles for the organization’s monthly print magazine, covering technology, cars, liquor, watches and cosmetics
  • Garnered over a million unique page views for articles on T&C online​

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Outstanding Senior Award in Journalism — May 2020
  • This honor from Elon University's School of Communications recognizes the outstanding achievements of a graduating senior who has demonstrated through consistent performance an extraordinary knowledge and ability in journalism, and has made significant contributions to the school and the major

Student Media Award — May 2020
  • This honor from the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership society recognizes the student who has contributed the most to advance communications on campus during the current academic year

Anne Cassebaum Outstanding Senior in Peace & Conflict Studies Award — May 2020
  • This honor from Elon University's Peace & Conflict Studies advisory board recognizes a senior that has excelled in classes and has had an active role in service involvement in the community

Student Journalist with The Chronicle of Higher Education — Oct. 2019
  • Selected to participate in a higher education reporting boot camp, which focused on conducting and mentoring meaningful campus coverage

Emerging Journalist with The Dow Jones News Fund — Aug. 2019
  • Awarded a grant to attend and participate in the Asian American Journalists Association National Convention hosted in Atlanta, Georgia

James F. Hurley Legacy Scholarship — May 2019
  • This honor from Elon University's School of Communications is awarded to a junior in journalism who has demonstrated excellence in the field
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Brad Hamm International Scholarship — May 2018
  • This honor from Elon University's School of Communications is awarded to a junior or senior who is an international student or has demonstrated strong international interest
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​​Eagle Scout with The Boy Scouts of The Philippines — June 2015

EDUCATION

​Elon University
Elon, N.C. — GPA 3.7 | May 2020
Majors: Journalism | ​International Relations
Minors: Peace & Conflict Studies | Middle East Studies

​St. Andrew's High School
Middletown, Del. -- GPA 3.3 | May 2016
AFFILIATIONS
The Society for Professional Journalists
Member — 2018-Present 

Asian American Journalists Association
Member — 2018-Present

Investigative Reporters & Editors
Member — 2017-Present

TOP AWARDS

1st place: Immersion Journalism
Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards
Society of Professional Journalists — 2019

1st place: Best News Reporter in the South
The Greeneye Shade Awards
Society of Professional Journalists — 2019

1st place: Best Feature Writer in the South
The Greeneye Shade Awards
Society of Professional Journalists — 2019

1st place: Feature Writing
N.C. College Media Association — 2019

1st place: Breaking News Photography
National Mark of Excellence Awards
Society of Professional Journalists — 2018
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1st place: Breaking News Reporting
Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards
Society of Professional Journalists — 2018

1st place: Best of Show Multimedia Package 
​Associated Collegiate Press — 2018
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1st place: Multimedia News Report 
Radio Television Digital News
Association of the Carolinas — 2018

SKILLS

DSLR Photography
Videography
AP copy editing
​HTML and CSS Coding
Collaborative writing
SEO Development​
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Premiere Pro

​LANGUAGES

Fluent in English and Tagalog
Elementary understanding of Arabic
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