Resume
Professional Experience
SciLine
Engagement Intern
Develop an audience engagement strategy to allocate scientific expertise to Spanish-language journalists
Produce series of Instagram Reels highlighting comment from experts on topics like immigration, data centers and drought
Pulitzer Center
Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow
University of Missouri Division of Research
Science Writing Intern
Produced 35 breaking and long-form articles on DEI crackdowns to a rocketry team’s use of experimental mines
Developed reporting into complementary audio stories to syndicate with KBIA-FM, Columbia’s NPR affiliate station
June 2026 - Present
Piura, Peru
May 2026 - Present
Pitched a reporting project on Peruvian scallop industry, receiving a grant to conduct reporting in Peru in September 2026
Conduct pre-reporting for the story, interviewing researchers and Peruvian community members in Spanish
Produced a multimedia story on the use of an LLM tracking Tweets for an updated case count of COVID-19
Developed complementary social media copy to promote stories on the organization’s LinkedIn and Facebook
Columbia Missourian
Assistant City Editor
National Association of Hispanic Journalists - MU Chapter
Co-president
The Maneater Campus Newspaper
Multimedia editor
February 2025 - April 2026
August 2025 - December 2025
Managed editorial copy for the higher education and health beat, supporting 12 reporters in enhancing storytelling skills
Led daily coverage by conducting routine news checks, hosting budget meetings, and supervising staff reporters
The Source
Newsroom Innovation Fellow - Reynolds Journalism Institute
Produced articles analyzing Oregon crime data on a local and state-wide level, fact-checking claims about crime
Columbia Missourian
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Video Production Intern for the Hubble Space Telescope
Higher Education and Health Reporter
Produced four Instagram Reels for HST, accruing on average 800,000 views per video
Served as a camera operator for a series for HST’s Servicing Missions, highlighting NASA Astronaut Kathy Thornton
Columbia, Missouri
Bend, Oregon
Columbia, Missouri
August 2024 - May 2025
Greenbelt, Maryland
Education
University of Missouri - Columbia
Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in Physics
Honors: Cum Laude
Activities
The Maneater Campus Newspaper
Managing Editor
Managed a staff of 190 student reporters
Managed publication in a record-breaking semester with roughly 900 pieces of content
Co-led the University of Missouri NAHJ chapter and won student chapter of the year at national conference
Spearheaded national recognition of the first NAHJ chapter in Missouri
Co-led chapter’s first media tour to Kansas City, Missouri, connecting students with news organizations
Columbus, Ohio
Columbia, Missouri
May 2025 - August 2025
June 2023 - August 2023
August 2022 - May 2026
Columbia, Missouri
May 2023 - May 2024
Columbia, Missouri
May 2023 - May 2024
Columbia, Missouri
October 2023 - May 2023
Conducted a two-round editing process alongside reporters, refining their projects in Adobe Audition and Premiere Pro
Served as a lead producer for the “Voices of MU” podcast, highlighting members of Columbia, Missouri community