Experience
Data Visuals Intern
Sacramento Bee, Sacramento (CA)
June 2023-August 2023
- Worked with R, Excel, QGIS and Datawrapper to design maps, charts and interactives for daily stories and long term projects
- Wrote 8 data driven articles and designed graphics; generated just over 42,000 pageviews between June and August
- Designed and animated motion graphics for scrollytelling elements in stories using Adobe After Effects and Google Earth Studio
- Built an interactive visual dashboard for survey data of migrant farmworkers using SVGs, D3 and Datawrapper
- Wrote two process articles for interactive visuals, including a quickstart guide for using the Census Bureau API via RStudio’s tidycensus package
Newsroom Content Creation TA
Missouri News Network, Columbia (MO)
January 2023-May 2023
- Served as a teaching assistant for the introductory newsroom content creation class at the University of Missouri
- Taught underclassmen journalism students how to work with requisite hardware: DSLR and mirrorless cameras, audio equipment (Zoom audio recorders and Marantz recorders)
- Taught underclassmen journalism students how to work with the Adobe Creative Suite
- Helped brainstorm and refine story pitch ideas, edited drafts of stories in multiple forms of media
Shift Editor
KBIA(NPR), Vox Magazine, Columbia (MO)
August 2022-December 2022
- Wrote cut & copies on a 3-hour deadline that were broadcast to the greater mid-Missouri audience
- Wrote, reported and voiced wraps on a dayturn deadline for both digital publication and over broadcast
- Edited and published articles; built digital elements (pull quotes, fact boxes, social media embeds) within Blox CMS
- Created feature videos for an online audience
Podcast Network Director
Mizzou Student Media, Columbia (MO)
July 2022-August 2023
- Created the Mizzou Student Media Podcast Network; built a framework for pitching, planning, producing, editing, branding and marketing student-created podcasts
- Researched industry standards podcast production; interviewed 5 podcast professionals and consulted scholarly research on college students as audiences for podcasting
- Planned and produced three sustaining podcasts
- Instructed and trained 50 students on how to pitch a podcast
Digital Director
Mizzou Student Media, Columbia (MO)
May 2022-May 2023
- Inaugurated the role of digital director for Mizzou Student Media, a student-led media coalition
- Consulted and supported staff at a legacy print outlet, a digital video outlet and campus radio station on how to create useful, audience-driven journalism
- Assisted in rebranding a TV broadcast outlet into a digital video outlet
- Instructed and trained dozens of staff members on photography, video and audio equipment
- Hosted a training for creating digital journalism on a deadline
- Aided in designing and executing a campus-wide audience survey
Audience Engagement Intern
The Texas Newsroom, Dallas (TX)
June 2022-August 2022
- Worked in NPR’s flagship statewide public radio collaboration with KERA, KUT, HPM and TPR
- Researched and presented a statewide newsletter landscape report. Tracked over 150 newsletters in Texas for the duration of the internship
- Monitored brand continuity across 7 different social media accounts
- Aided in writing social media copy for Twitter, Instagram
- Created both animated and static graphics about breaking news for Instagram stories, station homepages and article featured images
Visuals Director
The Maneater, Columbia (MO)
January 2022-May 2022
- Originated the position of visuals director at a traditional print outlet
- Performed CMS maintenance and ensured web stories presented visual elements well
- Identified organizational issues, overhauled and redesigned the Airtable story budget
- Taught writing sections how to pitch and report visual stories; facilitated collaboration between writing and visuals sections on creating those stories
- Organized and led a weekly pitch meeting for the data, graphics and multimedia sections
Multimedia Editor
The Maneater, Columbia (MO)
March 2021-May 2022
- Originated the position of multimedia editor at traditional print outlet
- Created the framework and workflow for the incorporation of multimedia storytelling within print articles, from pitch to publication
- Increased audience engagement for print articles with the attachment of multimedia packages
- Taught writing section editors about how to pitch and integrate multimedia reporting within print articles
- Recruited and managed a section of 15 reporters
- Trained reporters on using photography, video and audio equipment as well as Adobe Creative Suite applications
- Expanded social media presence to Youtube, Spotify and Tiktok. Increased engagement on these platforms by curating weekly videos and podcasts, culminating in thousands of views and hundreds of streams
- Created and uploaded 31 videos with 2500+ views
- Won best video at 2021-2022 Missouri College Media Association
Toolkit
- Adobe Creative Cloud: After Effects, Audition, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, Xd
- Coding languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, R/RStudio, After Effects scripts
- Visualization: D3, Datawrapper, Flourish, Tableau
- Blender
- Longform audio production
Education
University of Missouri
Bachelor of Journalism
Major: Journalism
Certificate: Media Technology and Design