Resume

JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

Investigated Baltimore City’s flagship violence intervention strategies using geospatial analysis and statistical modeling
Revealed significant changes in Filipino, Indian, and Korean communities using 15 years of census data
Facilitated other journalists’ reporting via PDF scraping, census analysis, visualization, and analysis of large datasets
Investigated the statewide correlation between standardized test scores and income levels in Maryland

Created an interactive choropleth map of how 700+ Miami-Dade precincts voted in the 2024 general election
Pitched and reported stories covering Miami-Dade’s hot button political issues for 1,000,000 monthly readers
Covering multiple longform investigations into Miami-Dade and Florida government failings

Won national reporting awards, including: ACP Pacemaker Story of the Year, 5th; CMA Best Crisis Coverage, 2nd; Apple Award Best Crisis Coverage, 2nd; Sunshine State Awards Breaking News, 3rd; ACP Best of Show: DEI reporting, 6th; twice received ACP Clips & Clicks Feature Story Hon. Mentions
Broke an investigative story that was later picked up by national media, such as Insider and the Miami Herald
Wrote one to three stories per week in news, including data-driven stories, features, breaking news, investigations, profiles, reporting on artificial intelligence, and Florida politics
Increased the output of the campus and city news section to nearly daily publication as news editor
Oversaw and co-created the UM News Briefs section of The Miami Hurricane to cover Miami-based news
As business manager, recruited 20 people to the sales team; created media kit, rate card and sales tracking documents; expanded distribution to 10 new locations and sold $38,000 of advertisements; managed printing

Published a 2,500+ word investigation into Iron Arrow, Miami’s most controversial honor society
Reviewed food, wrote long and short form features and profiles for a print circulation of 22,000/month

Co-produced one feature story and one investigative story for a #18 market
Conducted followup investigations on 5+ tips each day to assist special projects producers
Shadowed nearly every department to learn news-gathering and production processes

Wrote feature stories on the overhaul of Florida’s education system and social justice in service to Miamians

Reported and wrote for a multimedia project exposing the University of Miami’s secret use of facial recognition

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics,
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Minor in Economics, Coursework in data visualization
GPA: 3.79/4.0
Honors: Singer Scholar (fully paid tuition); Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society

R: sf, TidyCensus, Tidyverse, Lubridate, ellmer
Python: Pandas, BeautifulSoup
Research methods: Synthetic control group, Kernel density estimation, Spatial interpolation
Visualization: Flourish, Datawrapper, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, ggplot2 and Mapview
Very comfortable using: HTML/CSS/JS, Excel, Git, Tabula, Quarto, Markdown
Comfortable using: C, Java, QGIS, terminal, D3

Member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and attended IRE25 in New Orleans.
Coached on the SF package in R at Baltimore’s Data Day conference, held at the University of Baltimore.
Contributed to the Washington Post reporting on Trump’s June 2023 initial hearing.
~2000 hours of tutoring students at all levels of education up to undergraduate.
Salsa aficionado.

La Haine (movie), Plain Jane (song), Van Gogh (the artist), The Overstory (book)