University of California, Berkeley
Political Science and Music majors, Journalism minor

Freelance arts reporter and music critic
Independent |
- Reviewed pop and classical concerts and covered music, arts and entertainment for the San Francisco Chronicle, KQED (San Francisco’s NPR member station) and the San Francisco Classical Voice - In my work, I generally focus on musicians and artists from underrepresented and marginalized groups and cover the classical music industry's efforts to address its diversity problem

Environment Reporter
Berkeleyside |
- Pitch and report 3-4 original stories per week, from dailies to in-depth enterprise stories, with a primary focus on the environment beat through the Report for America program - Co-launched and write The Scene, Berkeleyside’s weekly arts, culture and events newsletter, growing its subscriber base to 3,000 with 47% engagement - Broke several impactful stories, including the mismanagement of toxic gas beneath a park and closure of the historic Asian American bookstore Eastwind Books; both were later picked up by major outlets - Led Berkeleyside’s coverage of the 2022 University of California academic workers’ strike; invited as a guest on KALW’s media roundtable on the strike

News Editor, Reporter
The Daily Californian |
- As a news editor for UC Berkeley’s student newspaper, I pitched, assigned and edited 10 stories per week - I joined the newspaper in 2021 as a reporter, covering student affairs, city government and the pandemic. In my second-ever solo byline, I won a California College Media Association award for COVID-19 coverage

News Intern
San Francisco Examiner |
- Reported on San Francisco’s pandemic recovery, covering topics from Chinatown-led efforts to protect older Asian Americans to the revival of nightclubs and other music venues - My review of a SF Symphony concert became the paper’s top-read story over the July Fourth weekend