Résumé

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Post-Graduate Fellow with American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop (Sept. ’08 – present)

  • Reporting and multimedia work.

Freelance Graphic/Multmedia Producer for The New Republic

  • Created Biden Gaffe-O-Meter graphic and an interactive graphic of Barack Obama’s policy team.

News21 Fellowship with Carnegie and Knight Foundations (May ’08 –Aug. 1 ’08)

  • Produced multimedia content on voter registration and Proposition 200 in Arizona, picked up by The New Republic.

Investigative, New Media Master’s Project: The Business of Detention (Oct. ’08 – May ‘08)

  • Investigation into how immigration detention facilities profit from the increased immigration enforcement.
  • Created interactive, multimedia Web site to accompany print article at http://www.businessofdetention.com.
  • Picked up by Mother Jones July/August issue as a Web exclusive.
  • Won the Melvin Mencher Award for Superior Reporting & the James L. Wechsler Award for National Reporting.

Thirteen/WNET New York (Jan. ‘08-current)
Intern in the Interactive & Broadband Department

  • Wrote content and updated basic HTML on Reel13, Rolling, & American Masters’ Zora Neale Hurston and Marvin Gaye sites.
  • Researched copyright licenses of photos for online use and transcribed video.

Freelance Writer/Multimedia Producer & Videographer

  • NYCinteractive.org (‘08): Co-produced three interactive multimedia package with videos entitled “The Fashionably Disobedient” and “Dirty Scandals, Patriotic Nookie as American as Apple Pie” & “The Brooklyn Brewery.”
  • New Media Newsroom (’08): Co-produced “Vinyl Junkies” and “A Chinese Way of Death.”
  • The Gold Standard (‘07): Profiled growth of Islamic schools and Ramadan in Richmond Hill, NY for student publication.
  • On-Tap Magazine, Washington, D.C. (‘07): Profiled Burlesque University entrepreneur Kitty Victorian and the Six Points Festival

The Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C. Intern Researcher/Writer at Well-Connected/Telecom Investigation Desk (March ‘07 – August ‘07)

  • Reported on digital copyright legislation in the 109th Congress, Sirius-XM merger, lobbying of the Copyright Office, and broadband deployment.
  • Wrote 2,500 word Digital Copyright wiki-article for SourceWatch’s Congresspedia.
  • Analyzed data from CPI’s FCC ex parte database.

United Press International, Newswire, Washington, D.C.
Freelance Journalist (Jan. ’05- Dec. ‘05)/Full-time Technology Correspondent (Jan. ‘06 – Aug. 1, ‘06)

  • Reported on telecom legislation in the 108th and 109th Congress as well as on privacy, social networking, blogsphere, broadband deployment, mobile industry and pop culture.
  • Held Deputy Hi-Tech Editor position with duties that include copy editing content and generating story ideas.

Independent researcher (Summer ‘04)

  • Self-financed trip a to Guyana to examine country’s political, social, and economic background as field research for on-going personal research project into the mass migration of West Indians.
  • Established and initiated interviews with President Bharrat Jagdeo and those ministers in his Cabinet.

The Eagle, American University’s student-run newspaper, Washington, D.C. Staff Writer (Jan. ‘02 – May ‘03), Campus News Editor (Aug. ‘03 – Dec. ‘04)

  • Interviewed notable individuals including former presidential candidate John Edwards post 2004 election, “Wag the Dog” director Barry Levinson, and WAMU’s Diane Rehm.
  • Major stories included in-depth articles into the Falun Gong, Islamic student reaction to a University Imam under investigation, controversial animal breastfeeding art and SEIU janitorial protests.

Fairfax Public Access’s WEBR radio, Radio Static and FM Odyssey, Fairfax, VA
Host, Technical Writer (Sept. 2001 – Oct. 2002)

  • Produced and scripted Radio Static, a one-hour radio program featuring local rock bands and pop culture.
  • Worked directly under head producer for the syndicated radio program FM Odyssey and trained in audio editing (CoolEdit).

Independent Media Center, Washington, D.C.
Freelance writer/photographer (‘00-‘02)

  • Assisted media production leaders on video projects on print and video content on World Bank/IMF protests, Olympic protests, and discrimination of activists.

EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York City
MS New Media Journalism (May ‘08)
Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism Fellow

American University, Washington, D.C.
BA Journalism (December ‘05)
Minors in Political Science and International Studies, with a concentration in Political Communication
Honors: Dean’s List, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Golden Key International Honour Society and Alpha Lambda Delta, Alumni mentorship with Matthew Swibel of Forbes Magazine

SKILLS
Foundation in graphic design, Storymaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, Access, Final Cut Pro, ProTools, HTML, Flash