I am a print and multimedia reporter interested in politics and international affairs, health and science, energy and the environment, and human rights. My background consists of a wide variety of reporting experiences, including the immigrant experience (see La barrera de lengua crea avismos en asimilación and Local Afghans’ Views on War), Washington, D.C. politics, health, energy and environmental policy, lobbying, Illinois politicians’ conflicts of interest, and war crimes trials at the United Nations’ courts in The Hague.
One of my most recent experiences was covering Yugoslavian war crimes trials for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting in The Hague. I focused on the cases of Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, and Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, and the contempt cases of Dragomir Pecanac and Milan Tupajic, filing weekly courtsides based on witness testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. I also wrote a 2,700-word analytical piece about the International Criminal Court and the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal (see International Criminal Court).
I have reported on national politics and energy and the environment in Washington, D.C. for local and national news outlets including POLITICO, UPI, McClatchy, National Geographic, the Frederick News-Post, and Vermont’s Barre Times Argus and Rutland Herald as well as the Washington bureau of the Medill News Service. I covered breaking news and congressional hearings and produced in-depth feature stories. During my most recent time in Washington, subjects I covered included alternative energy and energy / environmental policy.
In addition to writing and editing, I have extensive experience editing photos and creating videos, audio segments, photo and audio slideshows, and am familiar with social media and WordPress. Much of my training has been in online news, compiling print and multimedia elements into complete packages, and converting multimedia stories into print stories and vice versa. This included taking videos I created for nightly broadcast news and translating them to the Web with accompanying print pieces.
I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in December 2011 through Medill’s Accelerated Master’s Program. I minored in Mandarin Chinese in college and have studied in Beijing, and also speak Spanish and French.