As a multiple award-winning journalist, I produce multimedia packages and written stories across various print and digital publications and broadcast TV.

I write well-researched and insightful stories with striking visuals, and I bring everything I’ve got to the table when working on a project. I believe accuracy and professionalism never go out of style, and that innovation and striving to serve and represent our audiences in our coverage is paramount.

As a Columbia, Missouri native and graduate of the University of Missouri with a degree in Convergence Entrepreneurial Journalism, I am glad to call “CoMo” home. I enjoyed telling the stories of my fellow Missourians and I immersed myself in the rich media environment in mid-Missouri through working with Vox Magazine, KOMU 8, an NBC affiliate, KBIA, an NPR affiliate, and the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

But I didn’t always think journalism was for me.

Becoming a journalist had never crossed my mind — until the summer before my freshman year of high school when my mother recommended I take a journalistic writing class. At the time, I almost didn’t even entertain the idea. Journalists were the ones on TV all the time, and I knew nothing about reporting. I loved writing, but I didn’t think journalism was my path.

A woman named Robin Stover helped convince me otherwise. It was during a walkthrough of the school with my mother that we happened upon the journalism room nestled between the chemistry lab and art wing. I peeked into the room, and to my surprise, a smiling, friendly faced woman — Stover, who taught journalistic writing and advised the students running the school paper and online site — popped her head out from behind her computer and said, “Come on in!”

Our conversation lasted for about half an hour, but that was enough for me to see my future in this thing called journalism. It was there in that room, with an assortment of awards hanging crowded across every wall, hand-drawn calendars with deadlines scribbled in and page designs taped to chalkboards where I spent the next four years and that inspired my next chapter at the Missouri School of Journalism.

I now know much more about journalism than I did when I first started, and I know that not all journalists appear on TV. But I am aware that a lot of people have some misconceptions about journalists like I did, and I work to combat those by educating the people I encounter throughout the reporting process.

My experience in the field has allowed me to discover and hone my skills in reporting, producing, directing, editing and design. To see some of my work, check out the rest of this website that I designed and built myself.