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Resume

June 2024 - Present

Work
Experience

Editorial and Segment Producer, BBC News

  • Pitching, producing and writing nuanced, pertinent live or taped news segments, involving research writing, video editing and graphic creation for 450 million weekly viewers 

  • Writing questions and talking points for presenter-led interview with global figures

  • Developing professional relationships between the BBC and global leaders 

  • Wrote and produced election night specials that reached 9 million UK viewers and 7.5 million viewers online    

Aug 2023 - June 2024

April 2023 - Aug 2023

Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

September 2021 - May 2022

Production Assistant, PBS News Weekend and Washington Week

  • Produced weekly stories, edited and wrote the news summary, wrote scripts for anchors 

  • Line produced Washington Week and coordination booking, video and graphics for panel discussions

  • Editing headlines in the news summary with Avid, including graphics, SOTS, VOs, and VOIs

News Assistant, PBS NewsHour

  • Creating fonts for packages, fact checking scripts and finding and ingesting video 

  • Writing teases, finding daily facts for stories and pulling images from Reuters and AP for broadcast 

  • Assisting producers with livestreams and on other field shoots and assisting anchors and correspondents

Researcher, NBC News Social Newsgathering 

  • Freelance, full-time reporter for NBC News Social Newsgathering 

  • Used open source reporting to verify and report on video and events 

Intern, NBC News Social Newsgathering

  • Supported senior reporters with research and used social media to find and report elements and editorial information for reporting

  • Utilized investigative techniques including geolocation, reverse image search, public records, and satellite imaging to verify social media videos, social media profiles, and events 

  • Tracked down and obtained permission for user-generated content and found sources on social media 

May 2022 - Nov 2022

Production Intern, ABC News Nightline

  • Pitched and worked on two approved stories with a team of producers to complete the segments for Nightline’s new streaming show Impact x Nightline

  • Logged interviews, monitored and logged live feeds, participated in editorial meetings, and booked travel for anchors and correspondents 

  • Assisted producers on location shoots and participated  in midterm election coverage as a stretch assignment  

  • Completed booking requests, created booking grids, researched stories, and interviewed sources in pre-interviews

June 2021 - Aug 2021

Editorial Intern, FRONTLINE PBS

  • Conducted research and assisted senior editorial staff with the story submission review process

  • Fact-checked each documentary cut, completed a final audio archive, and summarized production notes at meetings

  • Answered viewer mail, assisted with diversity and inclusion research, assisted with field producer inquiries

Jan 2021 - May 2021

Editorial Intern, Mediaite

  • Transcribed interviews, helped to write the weekly newsletter and wrote breaking news

  • Monitored cable news, pitched article ideas, and created clips from SnapStream for social media

  • Researched media organizations, political figures, managed social media, and conducted SEO research

Jan 2021 - May 2021

Reporting Intern, Bronxnet

  • Developed multimedia techniques for the on-air media platform including writing for broadcast and live interviews

  • Wrote weekly broadcast scripts, pitched stories at weekly meeting, and produced packages for the network

May 2020 - Aug 2020

Reporter, Street Sense Media

  • Pitched and wrote weekly articles about breaking news regarding D.C.’s homeless community and local budget

  • Edited news stories, contacted sources daily, and spoke with government officials and nonprofits

Sept 2020 - Dec 2020

Communications and Advocacy Intern, The International Legal Foundation

  • Wrote media analysis reports on participatory defense and PR activities

  • Live-tweeted, made graphics for social media, edited company website with Figma and Wix, edited promotional video material with Premiere

  • Researched legal foundations and legal aid in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Nepal

  • Completed legal briefs and research on Tunisia’s 2017 Universal Periodic Review and current legal aid trends

May 2019 - May 2020

Research Assistant, Public Affairs and Policy Lab

  • Researched the role of women in civil rights law and utilized LEXIS extensively to analyze amici curiae briefs and U.S. Supreme Court cases involving gender-based discrimination

  • Analyzed data with R-Studio, SQLite, and Excel and completed a research brief to present to the program’s head

Education

Class of 2023

New York University,
Bachelor's Degree in Journalism

Class of 2023

New York University, Bachelor's Degree in Politics

Skills
& Expertise

Adobe Suite

​Avid Media Composer 

​Wordpress

Microsoft Office

SQLite

Nexis

R Studio 

SnapStream 

Planet Explorer

Script writing

Storytelling

Social Media

Open Source Reporting 

Riverside.fm

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Awards
& Honors

  • 2025 Breaking News Award / Royal Television Society 

  • 2025 Emmy Nomination 

  • 2022 Deadline Club Scholarship Winner

  • 2021 Dateline Award for best feature in a weekly newspaper, Society of Professional Journalists.

    • "Each year the D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists honors excellence in journalism. The Washington, D.C., Chapter’s Dateline Awards recognizes print, digital and broadcast journalists in the greater D.C. metropolitan area, including Northern Virginia and Maryland."

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