Northwestern University
Journalism and Computer Science

City Editor
The Daily Northwestern |
• Budgeted 120+ brief, explainer, enterprise, event, feature stories covering Evanston over 3-month period. • Edited 3-5 articles nightly, gathered team of dozen-plus reporters to consistently write for City Desk. • Broke news of low-income apartment board-up and lawsuit against Evanston reparations program.

Metro Intern
The News & Observer |
• Write breaking news about public safety, including police shooting, homicides and plane crash in Triangle region. • Dissect waste contamination, cannabis impaired driving laws, Asian American voter engagement in narrative features. • Cover electoral politics at presidential, state, municipal levels; detail candidate rhetoric, protests at presidential rallies.

Diversity and Inclusion Chair & Assistant Data Visualizations Editor
The Daily Northwestern |
• Train developing staffers on sensitive and culturally aware reporting practices, diverse coverage and ethics. • Advise editors and reporters on covering race and carceral history; compile diversity coverage resources. • Make graphs to supplement visual elements of print articles; pitch data journalism research and stories.

Copy Chief
The Daily Northwestern |
• Edited articles for style, grammar, factual mistakes, ensured inclusive language use, trained copy editors. • Streamlined corrections process, ensured more rigorous and methodical corrections documentation. • Investigated NU affiliated political action committee in context of universities’ relationships with legislators.

Print Managing Editor, Section Editor
nuAZN |
• Revised feature on Pacific Islander student experience and Asian American Pacific Islander aggregation. • Edited back-of-book stories, including humor pieces and reviews for Asian American interest magazine. • Reported and wrote about Asian Americans’ experiences in civic life centered on Northwestern community.

Student Press Freedom Day Co-chair
Student Press Law Center |
• Provide student feedback on SPLC initiatives to help bolster organization’s programming and exposure. • Planned and delivered trainings on Illinois student press law and improving school district media policies. • Crafted graphics, videos, social media content with other Co-Chairs on fighting censorship in schools.

Student Researcher
Northwestern University Office of Undergraduate Research |
• Applied for and received $4,000 grant to conduct research on federal Freedom of Information Act efficacy. • Analyzed datasets using Google Sheets, Excel and Python to derive trends in federal FOIA administration. • Read dozens of federal court opinions to collect statistics on FOIA litigation outcomes at district court level.