Resume

The Wall Street Journal

Wrote more than 300 real-time stories on earnings, stock moves, mergers and executive changes for an audience of investors at Dow Jones Newswires. Consistently wrote up stories within minutes of market-moving events as a breaking corporate news reporter.
Contributed 27 articles to The Wall Street Journal, including in-depth stories on the recent slump in fast-casual dining and investors’ excitement about Planet Fitness.
Pitched and wrote a story on America’s pickle craze, transforming a consumer trends piece into a quirky feature story published on the front page of the newspaper.
Trusted with the Journal’s earnings coverage for major companies such as DoorDash, Texas Instruments and EBay. Conducted interviews with CEOs of ThredUp and Shark Ninja.

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.

Helped lead 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