Resume

Intern, The Washington Post, Washington, DC (June 2025-August 2025):

Volunteered for assignments both familiar and unfamiliar, teaching myself to scrape business data, interviewing kitchen staff in Spanish, and acting as the desk’s point person on encampment sweeps.
Pitched and followed through on ambitious enterprise stories on addiction medicine and Haitian poultry workers.

Reporter, Capital News Service, Annapolis, MD (January 2025-May 2025):

Sharpened my writing and data reporting skills while producing both daily and feature reporting on Maryland state government, including several stories cited or republished by the Baltimore Banner and the Baltimore Sun.

Intern, InvestigateWest, Seattle, WA (May 2024-August 2024):

Used Washington Department Corrections internal data to reveal the agency’s failure to reliably honor inmates’ earned release dates.
Served as InvestigateWest’s temporary data reporter, providing fact-checking and direction for teams of full-time reporters investigating Medicaid fraud, disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous people in Washington jails, and the career paths of officers who have been fired from Washington law enforcement agencies.

Reporter, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, College Park, MD (January 2024-May 2025):

Led a three-person investigative team focused on the development of the 2024 Farm Bill.
Part of a five-person team responsible for standardizing, de-duplicating and developing storylines from thousands of Congressional travel disclosure records.

State Politics Reporter, Delaware Public Media, Dover, DE (April 2022-July 2023):

Wrote and produced daily newscast stories and feature-length stories with a focus on Delaware’s overdose crisis, rural homelessness, affordable housing, water quality, behavioral health care and small-town governments.
Shed light on an unusual interpretation of U.S. Supreme Court case law by Delaware’s Department of Health and Social Services upon which the state relied to avoid providing long-term psychiatric care. Produced the only coverage of the dissolution of the Lenape Tribe of Delaware into three factions competing for state grant funding.
Developed a network of sources stretching from the state’s Senate Majority Leader to unhoused poultry workers.

Police Accountability and Public Safety Reporter, PubliCola, Seattle, WA (August 2020 – April 2022):

Exposed gaps in oversight of off-duty police work, conflicts of interest in police disciplinary appeal hearings, and the stagnation of sentencing reform efforts.
Re-examined a mostly forgotten police shooting, prompting an investigation that ultimately determined that an officer failed to follow de-escalation protocols before killing a man experiencing a schizophrenic episode.
Revealed a pattern of sexual misconduct by a rural sheriff’s detective that led to the resignation of both the deputy and members of the county prosecutor’s office.
Uncovered the throughline between a decade-old crackdown on illicit activities by small businesses in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhood and the informal outdoor marketplace for stolen goods and narcotics that later appeared on the sidewalks in front of those now-vacant storefronts.

Newsroom Intern, WUNC 91.5, Durham, NC (June 2019-August 2019):

Produced live segments for the station’s former daily news magazine show, The State of Things, including about rising pressure in Durham’s rental housing market.

RadioActive Mentor, KUOW 94.9, Seattle, WA (July 2015-August 2018):

University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Master of Professional Studies in Data Journalism, Expected May 2025.
Pomona College, Claremont, CA. Bachelor of Arts in History, May 2020.

Languages: Spanish (fluent, used in reporting); Arabic (proficient).
Adobe Audition, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Census API, Copernicus Browser, CSS, D3.js, Datawrapper, Flourish, HTML, OpenRefine, Pro Tools, Python, R.