About

I'm a young journalist working as a local and state government reporter in a hyper-local newsroom in Centralia, Washington. At The Chronicle, I’ve settled into daily reporting style. I’m focused on quick-hitting accountability pieces to keep tabs on local and state government impacts with some local features and occasional longer form enterprise pieces sprinkled in. 

Before coming to The Chronicle, I built experience first as a student and reporter in Eugene at multiple publications. I’m a University of Oregon graduate where I got my start as a journalist late in my college career. 

While in Eugene, I worked with the student run newspaper, The Daily Emerald, at the local alt weekly, Eugene Weekly, and did work for the Catalyst Journalism Project. I also got the chance to report for The Chronicle in Accra, Ghana, for more than a month as part of the Media in Ghana program at the UO School of Journalism and Communication. My experiences early on ran the gamut from daily accountability reporting to features to enterprise and impact reporting. 

After graduation I moved on to Willamette Week in Portland where I was placed as part of the Charles Snowden internship program. Again I got a range of experiences from breaking news at a downtown building fire to arts and cultural features. But more than anything I learned from Managing Editor Aaron Mesh and reporter Sophie Peel on how to find, source and report high impact community stories. I'm most proud of the housing and homeless reporting I managed to do while there.

Finally, I gained some experience outside the journalism industry teaching English in France. While I took a break reporting my experiences there and in each of the newsrooms I've worked in current are reflected here in my reporting. This portfolio shows the progress I’ve made, the work I aspire to do and the most impactful stories I’m publishing right now.