Resume

Experience

The TRIBUTARY – FOUNDING EDITOR

Dec. 2020 - Present

• Helped found Jacksonville’s first digital-only nonprofit news source, focused on investigating entrenched problems and solutions in partnership with other local news outlets.

The Florida Times-Union – Enterprise Reporter

Feb. 2013 - Dec. 2020

• Exposed jail rapes by compiling county records from across the state, highlighting how bad policies — pairing accused predators with the mentally ill — put inmates in harm's way.

• Revealed the elected public defender rewarded political allies while his attorneys had the lowest pay in the state. Combed court records to show the chief assistant had been found ineffective four times.

• Developed by hand a database of drug convictions for a two-year period, capturing more than 30 variables, including race and sex of the defendants and who the prosecutors and judges were. Showed what aggravated sentencing disparities by profiling the prosecutor responsible for the sharpest inequities.

• Led newsroom-wide projects involving data analysis and visualization.

• Handled write-through duties when major stories broke.

• Covered stories on a variety of beats, including city hall, education, federal courts, sports and statehouse coverage.

The Dallas Morning News – Cops Enterprise Intern

May 2012 - Dec. 2012

• Reported about teenage heroin dealers, ineffective 911 systems, death penalty trials and police shootings.

Chattanooga Times Free Press – Cops Intern

July 2011 - Dec. 2011

• Covered night cops while writing narrative stories.

Recognition

Green Eyeshade Award: 1st place, Investigative Reporting (2019)

Florida Society of News Editors: 2nd place, Breaking News (2018) Sunshine State Award: 1st place, State Election Reporting (2017); 2nd place, Presidential Election Reporting (2017)

Florida Press Club: Freedom of Information Award (2016); 1st place, Religion (2015)

The NewsGuild: David S. Barr Award (2013)

Education

University of Florida

Bachelor of Science in Journalism, 2013

Data Skills

R, PSPP, Access, Excel, QGIS, Tableau