MY STORY
Behind the Words
An award-winning investigative and enterprise reporter with strong research, engagement and narrative skills.
With seven years of demonstrated history of working in the newspaper, public radio and TV news industries and a professional mentor to young journalists.
I am currently a freelance mental and behavioral health reporter based in the Southwestern United States, but continue to cover these stories at a hyperlocal level across the nation.
I covered mental and behavioral health in New York including the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and mental and behavioral health through the national service program Report For America from 2019 to 2022 at Spectrum News 1 Buffalo.
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Selected as Journalist Educator For the Syracuse Journalism Lab, 2021-2022
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Selected for Report For America’s third year of corps members 2019-2022
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Selected as Report For America Corps Advisory Board Member, 2021-2022
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Selected for National Press Foundation Opioid and Addiction Fellow 2021
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Mental Health Advocates of WNY Advocacy Award 2020
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Selected for The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute 2019 Women In Journalism Workshop
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Best of The West 2018, The Sunday Staff Award for Oct. 1 mass shooting package ‘Unbreakable Vegas’
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Nevada Press Association Best Investigative Journalist 2017 for Children on the Cusp: The Transition From Foster Care to Adulthood is Leaving Some Behind
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Nevada Press Association Best Community Reporter 2017 for Children on the Cusp: The Transition From Foster Care to Adulthood is Leaving Some Behind
