Resume

Emmy-winning researcher, reporter and audio producer. Passionate about bringing news to life through narrative.

News Reporter/Producer & California Local News Fellow, 90.3 KAZU (September 2024-Present, Full-Time) (January-August 2024, Part-Time)

• Pitching, reporting, and producing super-spots and features for public radio.

• Taking photos, writing digital stories, and peer-editing.

• Stories here.

Freelance Reporter & Producer (November 2020-August 2024)

• Co-reported, wrote, and produced a narrative feature for NPR's Code Switch.

• Reported, photographed, and wrote daily news stories on local policy and government for the San José Spotlight.

• Reported, wrote, and produced a 7-month environmental investigation for audio and digital.

Investigative Reporting Mentor/Advisor, City on a Hill Press (April-June 2023, Contract)

• Advised and mentored a group of student journalists working on investigative reporting projects for their university newspaper.

Podcast Producer, The Oregonian/OregonLive (October 2022-March 2023, Fellowship)

• Hosted and produced dozens of episodes of The Oregonian’s daily news podcast and 7 episodes of Beat Check with The Oregonian.

• Managed production calendar for 4 weekly podcasts.

• Mixed episodes of Peak Northwest, an outdoors and travel podcast.

• Promoted all Oregonian podcasts on social media.

• Contributed reporting and research for a four-part investigative series called The Forgotten Four, which published on October 20, 2023.

General Assignment Reporter, The Press Democrat (June-September 2022, Internship)

• Pitched, reported, and wrote daily and enterprise news stories for print and digital, with a focus on climate change and education.

• Covered an investigation into a school principal, reasons why new teachers are leaving the profession, the complex role of climate change in salmon fishing off the Northern California coast, and more.

Associate Producer, The Science of Happiness (June-August 2022, Part-Time)

• Booked guests, pitched episodes, prepared interview questions, gathered tape in the field, and researched psychology studies for a weekly podcast.

Audio Reporter/Producer, Talk Policy To Me (September 2020-May 2022, Part-Time)

• Pitched, researched, reported, produced, and mixed bi-weekly interview-style podcast episodes, with a focus on climate policy and electoral politics.

• Attended weekly editorial meetings and provided feedback to colleagues.

• Samples: Talking Trade-offs & the Electric Grid; Talking Agriculture, Drought, & Resilience; Talking a Voting Overhaul, Part 1.

Data Researcher, Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting (November 2020-December 2021, Part-Time)

• Requested, collected, and analyzed dozens of police reports, researched and fact-checked studies, and created a database to find patterns in police behavior during sexual assault investigations for a documentary film.

• The film, Victim/Suspect, premiered at Sundance on January 23, 2023. It was released on Netflix on May 23, 2023.

  • Emmy nominated in 3 categories: Outstanding Investigative Documentary, Outstanding Research: Documentary, and Outstanding Direction: Documentary.

  • Winner: Outstanding Research: Documentary, 2024

Event Coordinator, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (August-December 2021, Part-Time)

• Booked high-profile journalists as guest speakers for a first-year class at Berkeley Journalism.

• Communicated with and attended to guests to ensure they were prepared for their appearance.

Investigative Intern, UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program & Open Vallejo (May-August 2021, Internship)

• Filed public records requests across multiple police departments. Read through over 600 of pages of police investigative files to identify policy violations.

Votebeat Reporter, CalMatters (October-November 2020, Part-Time)

• Reported 4 election stories as part of CalMatters’ Votebeat project in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Editor & Reporter, City on a Hill Press (September 2017-June 2020, Part-Time)

• Pitched, reported, assigned, and edited dozens of stories over the course of three years.

• Co-reported an investigative series about how UC Santa Cruz responded to allegations of harassment against a tenured professor.

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Skills

• Spanish language

• Adobe Audition

• Grove CMS

• Descript

• Riverside FM

• Data analysis (R, SPSS, Excel, Airtable)

• Social media posting and scheduling (Dash Hudson, Social News Desk)

• FOIA/CPRA/Public Records Requests

• LexisNexis

• Interviewing for print, digital, and radio

• Narrative writing

• News reporting and writing

• Podcast production

• AP Style

• Media law & ethics

Education

• Master of Journalism, Audio | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism | 2022

  • As a recent alum, reviewed incoming applications for the Class of 2025

• Bachelor of Arts, Politics | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2020 | Magna Cum Laude, Latin American and Latino Studies Minor

  • Human Rights and Cultural Memory study abroad program | 2018 | Buenos Aires, Argentina & Santiago, Chile

Awards

• Emmy nominee in the Outstanding Research: Documentary category in 2024 for my research on the film Victim/Suspect

• Sacramento Press Club Beth Ruyak Scholarship, May 2020

Affiliations

• Association of Independents in Radio

• Association of LGBTQ Journalists

• Online News Association