Resume

The Wall Street Journal | New York City

Will report on breaking business news for Dow Jones Newswires and Real Time desks.
Selected by Dow Jones News Fund to attend eight-day business training.

Served as a reporting intern for a statewide newspaper covering economic, legal and legislative news across Maryland.
Pitched and wrote a combination of daily stories and enterprise coverage, totaling 24 single-bylined articles over eight weeks.
Hit daily deadlines to cover topics including affordable childcare, city development projects, Realtor commission rates and business profiles.
Reported on the impact of worldwide Microsoft outage in Maryland. Covered union contracts and AI in higher education. Created data visualizations on child poverty across Maryland.
Selected by prestigious MDDC Press Association for competitive internship.

Manages a news desk of 14 staff writers through sourcing, breaking news and reporting.
Works three eight-hour shifts per week to edit news and freelance articles for accuracy, structure and AP style. Crafts SEO-friendly headlines.

Led news desk through coverage of federal impacts on the university, the historic state budget deficit and student protests related to Israel and Palestine.
Conducted biweekly interviews with the university president, serving as the central line of communication between the university administration and newspaper staff.
Worked two eight-hour shifts per week to edit news and freelance articles.

Pitched and wrote 70 single-byline stories on cannabis legislation, workers’ rights, university lawsuits, breaking news and more.
Spearheaded coverage of campus reaction to violence in Israel-Palestine. Wrote series of articles on vigils, protests and student government controversies.
Spent months covering the fight for better working conditions at the university, revisited newspaper’s former racial justice coverage.
Broke data story on the record-number of hate bias incident reports at the university. Uncovered 26% increase of Black faculty by analyzing publicly available data.
Wrote multiple data stories, including mapping each Maryland cannabis dispensary and examining popularity of university dining halls.

Interviewed nearly a dozen childcare experts for long-form article about pre-K expansion across the state.
Contributed to six-month long enterprise project on the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.
Mapped pre-K participation rates across each county with Flourish visualization.
Reporting picked up by The Baltimore Sun, The Capital Gazette and MoCo360.

Multiplatform Journalism and Information Science dual degree candidate
Citation from prestigious Media, Self and Society College Park Scholars living-learning program
Relevant Coursework: News reporting, news videography, media law, SQL databases, object-orientated programming with Python, news applications
GPA: 3.9