Overnight Breaking News Reporter | National Public Radio | Remote

Feb. 2022 - Present

• Monitor news wires, sites and sources for breaking news from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
• Craft “day two” stories that explain or add context to a major news story
• Record 40-second radio segments to coincide with digital stories

Breaking News Reporter | Courier Journal | Louisville, KY

Oct. 2020 - Feb. 2022

• Write and publish general breaking news on crime and courts, business, weather, sports, schools, etc. quickly and accurately
• Live-blog significant local events, i.e., western Ky. tornados and missing boaters
• Use understanding of SEO and audience trends to craft headlines, subheads to drive page views
• Move quickly to post few grafs on known information, update later
• Produce enterprise stories between breaking news, boosting subscribers and readership during holidays, weekends, etc.

Intern | CNN Digital, Politics | Washington, D.C.

Jan. 2020 - March 2020

• Conducted research for the breaking news politics team
• Drafted Twitter and Facebook posts with CNN’s web production team

Reporter | Capital News Service | Washington, D.C.

Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2019

• Reported on congressional issues relevant to Maryland readers twice a week for senior capstone
• Stories on payday loan regulation, Metro's update to Congress picked up by AP, The Washington Post
• Covered major national events, including the funeral of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D.C. climate change march

Senior Staff Writer | The Diamondback | College Park, MD

Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2019

• Ideated, reported and published stories about arts, culture and music for school paper twice a week

Metro Desk Intern | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Atlanta, GA

June 2019 - Aug. 2019

• Reported on local matters, such as city/county operations and gentrification by establishing relationships with council members, businesses and residents
• Analyzed, sorted data to reveal large Saudi donations made to top Georgia universities
• Mined social media, attended community events, resulting in increased coverage of underrepresented south Atlanta neighborhoods
• Conducted audio interviews for paper's "Breakdown" podcast

Reporter | The New York Times Student Journalism Institute | New York, NY

May 2019 - June 2019

• Spent two weeks exploring New York’s current hip-hop scene, through field reporting and interviews with artists, record label rep. and DJ
• Story placed on front page of the Institute paper and in top stories on the site

Intern, Trends Team | CNN Digital | Atlanta, GA

June 2018 - Aug. 2018

• Wrote over 40 stories on variety of topics like Mars, weather, accessibility rights and crime

• Contributed to breaking news on Capital Gazette shooting, Pittsburgh protests in response to officer-involved shooting of Antwon Rose

• Optimized audience engagement time and site traffic by pitching and executing high-impact stories featured prominently on CNN’s homepage and app

B.A., Multiplatform Journalism | University of Maryland - College Park
Minor: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Aug. 2016 - May 2020

• Conversational in Spanish
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Audio recording
• Audio editing
• Video editing
• Microsoft Excel
• DSLR Cameras
• Basic HTML
• Basic CSS

• Member of Courier Journal Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2020-2022)
• Maryland Association of Black Journalists (MABJ)
  • President (2019-2020)
  • Membership Outreach Chair (2018-2019) - awarded Pre-Professional Organization of the Year by university, national Student Chapter of the Year finalist
• Participant in 2019 National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) Multimedia Student Projects at Miami national convention
• Participant in 2019 NABJ Short Course at North Carolina A&T State Univ.

• Maryland Association of Black Journalists awarded Pre-Professional Organization of the Year by university's Nyumburu Cultural Center (May 2019)