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Staff Writer, Congress
CQ Roll Call: Dec. 2022 - Present
Campus reporter at CQ Roll Call, covering Senate Rules and Administration Committee, House Rules and Administration committees, Legislative Branch appropriations and Legislative Branch agencies
Contributed reporting on Republicans’ protracted effort to elect a Speaker of the House; covered second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack; increased funding for the Capitol Police in the fiscal year 2023 Legislative Branch budget
Insurance Reporter
CQ Roll Call: Aug. 2021 - Dec. 2022
Cover state and federal insurance regulation and policy for CQ Roll Call
Write articles published on CQ.com, Rollcall.com and in Thomson Reuters Westlaw; meet three article-a-day quota and report long-form enterprise stories on all varieties of insurance
Wrote stories on the intersection between insurance and technology, the effects of climate change and natural disaster on property insurance premiums and developments in the National Flood Insurance Program
Education Reporter
Greenwich Time: Sept. 2020 - Aug. 2021
Covered Greenwich public and private schools and the district’s Board of Education, with special emphasis on COVID-19 and its effects on schools, staff and students
Broke stories about the school district’s failure to adhere to COVID-19 communication policy, wrote extensively about the district’s issues delivering special education services and the school board’s internal politics
Health/General Assignment Reporter
Hearst CT Media: March 2020 - Sept. 2020
Part of a statwide team covering the COVID-19 pandemic across eight daily and 14 weekly Hearst CT newspapers
Wrote primarily about the spread of COVID-19 and the effects of the virus on vulnerable populations, specifically immigrants, people with comorbidities and essential workers
Relying heavily on data, wrote stories about testing, contract tracing, the spread of the virus and related trends throughout Connecticut
Contributing Writer
S Magazine, Hearst CT Media: Oct. 2018 - July 2020
Regularly contributed features on Connecticut artists, designers, filmmakers and musicians for Hearst CT’s Sunday Arts & Style section
Education/General Assignment Reporter
Norwalk Hour: June 2018 - March 2020
Covered education, state and local government, housing, urban development, crime and arts and culture
Reported a series about housing issues in Connecticut, including housing prices outstripping incomes, opportunity inequality and the decline of public housing
Broke stories on poor conditions at a local housing project that prompted an investigation and remedial action from the city
Reported a series on campus sexual assault, its impact on students and efforts by universities in Connecticut and nationwide to modernize policies
Covered the consolidation of adult education programs, declining enrollment at state community colleges, racial disparity in disciplining students and shifting demographics in many Connecticut school districts
Education/General Assignment Reporter/Photographer
Fairfield Citizen/Westport News: Oct.. 2017 - June 2018
Covered secondary and post-secondary education in Fairfield and Westport, wrote stories on sexual harassment in schools, efforts to improve school safety, the rising popularity of vaping, local elections and arts and culture
Reporter and Photographer
Darien News/New Canaan News: Feb. 2016 - Oct. 2017
Covered local politics and elections, police and courts, and arts and cultural events in two towns
Contributing Writer
Morris Media Group: Aug. 2014 - Sept. 2017
Wrote features on arts and culture for Litchfield, Fairfield, Ridgefield, Wilton and Bedford magazines
Editorial Assistant
Stamford Advocate: Aug. 2015 - Feb. 2016
Contributed news stories and features and provided administrative support for two daily newspapers
Education
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Bachelor of Arts in English
University of Connecticut: Graduated 2013
English major, Political Science minor
While abroad in London, interned at a community center where I helped lead youth after-school and adult unemployment programs; As a freshman, worked as an after-school tutor for middle school students in Yonkers, N.Y.
Awards/Other
Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists
Two first place awards in Education reporting and two first place award in Local reporting; second place in Courts/Crime reporting and third place in Religion reporting
Volunteer refugee mentor with the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants
2019 New England First Ammendment Institute Fellow
Attended the New England First Ammendment Coalition’s annual conference on First Ammendment rights, investigative and data journalism