Investigative Reporter, Fellow

• Year long fellowship with NPR’s investigative team
• Coded newsroom tools to aid investigations
• Writing data driven stories and producing video accompaniments

Freelance Election Webscraping

• Assisted with webscraping election results to feed AP’s election database
• Coded pipelines to parse complex pdf election results

Freelance Animation and Videography

• Worked with reporters to create animated trailers for podcasts
• Filmed and edited news quick turn news packages

Data Reporter

• Filmed, animated, and edited the Howard Center’s first short documentary about how the white press fueled the 1919 Elaine massacre
• Co-leader of the data team for the Essential and Exposed, investigating workplace safety during the pandemic
• Data analysis in R and developed Github workflow for team of data journalists
• Designed object-oriented webscrapers in Python for Court Scraper, an open source project to create a generic scraper that can support most common court website platforms.
• Co-created newsapp in Javascript that explores how hundreds of newspapers covered lynchings and “helped create a culture that fomented racial terror” across the US

Investigative Video Journalist, Fellow

• Filmed, edited, and planned the short documentary “Dismissed,” which depicts how mold and other 2017 hurricane damage is still gripping schools in Puerto Rico
• Videographer for the short documentary “Ghost Forests,” which was published in “Time Magazine” and explores the effects of rising ocean levels
• Co-produced, filmed, edited, and animated motion graphics for “Off-Balance,” an investigation into the lack of regulation of electric scooters
• Produced motion graphics for “Open Wide,” a piece about corruption in the dentistry industry and “Broken Trust,” a documentary about sexual assault on tribal lands
• Developed code to scrape message boards to help uncover white supremacists in the U.S. armed forces for the open source investigation with Bellingcat

Rice Thresher Newspaper

• Collaborated with the Thresher editor-in-chief to report on newsworthy stories
• Led 5 other videographers and assigned responsibilities and deadlines
• Interviewed sources, filmed, and edited footage to produce weekly news videos relevant to Houston and Rice