Dallas Observer
Contributor (Jan 2024 - Present)
● Produce top-performing breaking news, profiles, and event articles for music, culture and news sections
● Photograph local businesses, events and figures across Dallas-Fort Worth
● Wrote the most-read music story of 2024
Music and Culture Intern (Oct 2023 - Jan 2024)
● Produced a top-five social media performing story each month of internship
● Covered local figures and groups, including the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Museum of Art and Dallas Zoo
● Photographed local musicians and events, including Night of the Stars fashion show guest speakers Alicia Silverstone, Christian Siriano and Tyson Beckford
● Completed mentorship, developed pitching under Music and Culture Editor Eva Raggio
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North Texas Daily
Managing Editor (July 2023 - Dec 2023)
● Edited and published 280+ stories, led staff of 140+ members and 15-member editorial board
● Co-produced investigative campus story that became the paper's most engaged social media post and article of 2023
● Doubled Instagram and website engagement over the course of six months
● Photographed local musicians and events, including Night of the Stars fashion show guest speakers Alicia Silverstone, Christian Siriano and Tyson Beckford
Arts & Life/The Dose Editor (May 2022 - Aug 2023)
● Edited and managed 200+ stories across 30+ weekly print and digital issues
● Managed, instructed and assigned content to 20+ writers
● Hosted and produced weekly episodes of the "Daily's Dose Podcast"
● Wrote 60+ articles covering Denton's arts and music communities and pop culture media
South by Southwest reporter (March 2023)
● Competed with major entertainment publications to produce 10-day coverage of Austin, Texas media festival
● Edited and coordinated coverage of four-member team
● Co-compiled a multimedia story and review of "Joy Ride" premiere, interviewed director Adele Lim, producer and writer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Oscar- nominated actress Stephanie Hsu
● Photographed and reviewed the world premiere headliners "Swarm," "Problemista" and "Self Reliance," featured session speakers Robert Downey Jr., Jake Johnson and Allyson Felix
Senior Arts & Life Writer (Jan 2022 - May 2022)
● Published 200+ stories as section's lead reporter
● Doubled the amount of section writers through recruitment efforts over the course of a semester
● Grew online engagement for the "Daily's Dose Podcast"
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Dallas Morning News
News Intern (May 2020 - Aug 2020)
● Published individual and collaborative stories
● Profile on local activist published as Sunday Metro cover
● Completed mentorship, developed storytelling craft under DMN reporter Charlie Scudder
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Awards & Scholarships
● 2025-2026 Mayborn Graduate Scholarship
● 2024-2025 Mayborn Graduate Scholarship
● Fall 2023 Mayborn School of Journalism Outstanding Senior Award
● Spring 2023 Distinguished Mayborn Faculty/Staff Legacy Scholarship
● Spring 2022 Charldean Newell Journalism Scholarship
● Fall 2021 Fort Worth SPJ Staley and Beverly McBrayer Scholarship
● 2020 National Federation of Press Women Best of the Best Award of Excellence
● 2019 ILPC Tops in Texas for News Writing