Northwestern University
Journalism, Political Science

Research Intern
NPR |
- Lead producer on the long-form narrative series Stories Without End hosted by award-winning Chicago journalist Natalie Moore - Lead producer on the chart-topping narrative show Making; managing show calendars; identifying, pre-interviewing and booking sources; securing exclusive footage; conducting research and prepping host; scripting, sound designing and cutting episodes - Produced newscast for NPR’s Consider This, mixing anchor tracking, news segments and music within half an hour every day - Developed, structured and launched WBEZ’s Art of Power hosted by Aarti Shahani; booked and pre-interviewed all guests including Cori Bush, Indra Nooyi, Common and Jameela Jamil; prepped, scripted, produced and scored episodes using Vegas - Pitched, reported and produced segments for WBEZ’s live daily news talk show Reset, which received 25,000 daily listeners

Research Intern
WBEZ |
- Wrote weekly articles, tracked down sources on TLOxp, conducted interviews, gathered hard-to-access archival tape and filed FOIA requests for the Peabody-finalist book Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by author Ben Austen as well as Polk-winning podcast The Parole Room. Fact-checked This American Life episode “This Is the Case of Henry Dee”

Podcast Producer
Freelance |
- Mixed audio with Pro Tools for several investigations and documentaries, including for award-winning podcast In The Dark - Researched, fact-checked and filed FOIAs in both English and Spanish for In The Dark seasons two and three - Reported and wrote several original stories about Juul Labs, Inc., CLEAR, a juvenile corrections facility, and lead contamination

Podcast Producer
American Public Media, APM Reports |
- Lead producer at NPR’s How To Do Everything from Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, producing the show from inception to finale: building showboards and infrastructure, pitching segments, conducting research, booking all guests and coordinating setup, directing hosts in-studio, scoring, determining episode structure, editing audio with Adobe Audition, writing episode copy, publishing episode and fostering relationships across NPR marketing and social media departments to push the show out

Producer/Reporter
Ben Austen and Bill Healy |
- Interviewing, field recording, transcribing, storyboarding and providing production assistance for video documentary with journalist Keerti Gopal, following one man’s reentrance to society after release from Stateville Correctional Center - Reporting for City Bureau Documenters, attending criminal detention hearings to evaluate Illinois’s pre-trial justice system