Content Creator/Editor/Communications Consultant

• Award-winning journalist skilled in writing, editing and research.

• Experience managing publications and social media channels. 

• Cowrote a toolkit for gun-violence survivors.

• Knowledgeable in shooting and editing photos and videos. 

• Software skills: Microsoft Office; Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Premiere

Experience

Senior Editor: Highlands Current Newspaper              Cold Spring, N.Y.         Jan. 2020 to present

• Manage production during editor-in-chief’s absence.

• Devise ideas for feature stories and series.

• Write and edit news stories and features.

• Analyze data.

• Shoot photographs and video.

• Create and update WordPress-based website.

• Manage freelancers and student journalists. 

Communications Consultant: Survivors Empowered                              Sept. 2020 to Oct. 2023

• Wrote both online and e-newsletter content.

• Created and updated online posts.

• Collaborated on a Survivors Toolkit (bit.ly/48LCikw).

• Co-managed organization’s Facebook page.

•  Helped draft op-eds and press releases.  

Reporter: Times Herald-Record Newspaper                 Middletown, N.Y.         March 2010 to Nov. 2018

• Covered municipal governments; crime; business and development; education; state and federal courts; and community events.

• Authored breaking news and feature stories.

• Shot and edited photos and videos.

Multimedia Reporter News21/University of Maryland        College Park, Md. June 2009 to Aug. 2009

• Authored feature on Latino civic engagement for foundation-funded fellowship.

• Duties included research; data analysis; and shooting and editing photographs.

• Traveled to Arkansas to interview sources for capstone project. 

Staff Writer Baltimore AFRO-American Newspaper      Baltimore, Md. Jan. 2005 to Aug. 2007

• Covered Maryland and Baltimore City governments; courts; crime; education; development.

• Undertook reporting assignments to Iraq and Mississippi.

• Researched and wrote feature stories for special sections.

• Hosted and booked guests for the newspaper’s radio show.

Education

B.A. English: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md., 2007

M.J. Journalism: University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 2009

Certifications

Adobe Certified Associate (Animate, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)

Awards

2025: Journalists Association of New York, Business Reporting: “Who Will Watch the Kids?”

2025: National Newspaper Association, Business Story: “Who Will Watch the Kids?” 

2023: International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, Golden Quill Award: “The COVID Shrug”

2023: National Newspaper Association, Community Service Award: “Always Present, Never Seen”

2022: New York Press Association, Sports Feature: “When Beacon Was King”

2021: NY News Publishers Association, Best Investigative Reporting: “Placed in Harm’s Way”

2017: NY News Publishers Association, Distinguished Multimedia Presentation: “Newburgh Water Crisis”

2016: NY News Publishers Association, Community Service: “How Narcan is Saving Lives”