About

I am an experienced writer and editor.

With staff experience and bylines in The Cut, Eater, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, and more, I have accumulated nearly a decade of editorial expertise. I am a true font of ideas and am passionate about telling meaningful, useful stories.

In the last 10 years, I’ve reported on just about everything—the travel industry, lifestyle trends, immigration policies, entertainment news, student loan debt, reproductive justice, the US labor movement, two presidential elections, and even breaking Taco Bell news. In that time I have developed an extensive network of contacts and the essential writing, editing, and reporting skills to produce well-sourced and compelling stories for print magazines and digital publications including New York Magazine, Eater, Vulture, Mic, Vice, The Fader, The Cut, and Thrillist.  I can (and have) worn many hats in media. I have experience with social strategy, copywriting, graphics for digital content, film and audio editing, voiceovers, and academic research. I am always open to learning more and strive for excellence regardless of subject matter.

I am a graduate of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Reporting the Nation Master’s Program at New York University. While at NYU for my Bachelor’s degree I served as the Editor-in-Chief of NYU’s student blog, NYU Local, and section editor for NYU’s travel publication, NYU Baedeker. While in school, I held internships at Complex and Vice, and was employed by The FADER , The Cut, and Mic. During my Master’s program, I was one of six students selected to help write, produce, and edit a feature on Venezuelan migrants for PBS Newshour. Other reporting I published through the program included an investigation into the dire conditions in NYCHA and what journalism school presidents have to say about the increasingly volatile media job market.

Following grad school, I worked for The Week Junior. We launched the print magazine in March 2020, during the height of the pandemic. The weekly print publication served children between the ages of 8 and 14. I was responsible for managing reader submissions, increasing reader engagement, running the weekly children’s book author profile column, and other weekly columns and articles. During that time I learned how to work with a small team on a print publication on tight weekly deadlines.

After The Week Junior, I began at as a staff writer Thrillist, where I covered lifestyle, food, travel, and social media news. Soon, I honed in on beats covering labor and travel news. I pitched the package “Better Than You Found It,” which focused on providing serviceable stories to the Thrillist audience. The package was later sold as a sponsored package to Corona. I also developed the strategy to secure the talent for our two leading franchises, Wander Musts and My Day Off. I pitched, booked, and conducted interviews with Grammy Winner Doechii, Super Bowl Champion Brandon Graham, Abbott Elementary star Tyler James Williams, Severance star Alia Shawkat, and numerous other exciting and notable figures.

It wasn’t just celebrity interviews and travel news at Thrillist. I also wrote serviceable guides on travel tips, public health, and major industry shifts. I developed and established a relationship with the Biden White House, and interviewed Transit Secretary Pete Buttigieg three times over the course of a year. I also wrote features on babies racking up airline miles in their first year of life, former militia men leading walking tours, and the families of murder victims traveling cross country in order to seek justice. I constantly strived to be the best I could be for my team while at Thrillist. I used professional development funds for copy editing classes to brush up on AP style, was the co-lead of the Women’s Employee Resource Group, and created reporting resources for all the writers on staff so that we all had access to sources I developed. I helped colleagues develop their pitches, wrote additional stories to help our team meet output goals, and assisted in pitching stories for other writers on a daily basis.

While reporting out the 40 to 50 stories I wrote each month, I used Reddit, Facebook, public records, LinkedIn, old newspaper records, and numerous other avenues to develop sources. I took every SEO training available to me, and can use SemRush, Parse.ly, and Google Analytics to track the performance of my stories and use the tools to inform how I craft SEO headlines, deks, and slugs.

There has been no point in my career where I have not applied myself fully — not only to my own success but to the success of the team I am working with. I can write fun and engaging newsletters (and have), I can capture exciting social video (and have), and can appear on TV and podcasts to talk about my work (and have).

I grew up in Florida’s two most biggest spring break towns, which comes up more often than you’d think.