Experience

 2015-present        Host/Producer/Manager, KJZZ News (NPR Phoenix)                     Phoenix, AZ

            Host and producer of live, one-hour daily news magazine show in top-10 news market, covering the biggest local and national news stories of the day and conducting in-depth interviews that add context to issues affecting the community, region and nation.

 2013-2015                   Investigative Reporter, ABC15 News (KNXV-TV)                 Phoenix, AZ

            On-air investigative reporter for E.W. Scripps ABC News affiliate in the fifth largest U.S. city. Investigations included a first-of-its-kind data collection showing the danger zones surrounding hazardous chemical facilities in Arizona, relentless reporting on a controversial form of birth control approved by the FDA, and an in-depth look at the systemic underreporting of arson in Arizona.

2011-2013                   Investigative Producer, ABC15 News (KNXV-TV)                Phoenix, AZ

            Produced in-depth, investigative and enterprise broadcast packages for air and on-line, including a Peabody Award-winning series that prompted Ford Motor Company to recall more than 700,000 vehicles.

2011                            Carnegie Fellow, ABC News                                      New York, NY

            Under the direction of award-winning ABC News Investigative team, conducted months-long, in-depth investigation into immigrant parents separated from their children when arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities.

Internships and Student Work

2010                             Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow                                     Phoenix, AZ

            Part of a team of student reporters responsible for producing an in-depth, multimedia project on the economic, ethical and human challenges resulting from illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border.

2009                                        Intern, Phoenix New Times                                     Phoenix, AZ

            Reported for popular food and culture blogs and produced and reported an investigative story on deficiencies in health care provided to inmates of Maricopa County jails under then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

2007-2009                   Intern, ABC News, CBS News.com, and CNN                New York, NY

            While an undergraduate student, wrote, researched and generated story ideas for network news websites and packaged content for daily newscasts and breaking news.

2008                            Intern, European Producers Club                                        Paris, France   Edited promotional materials in French and English; assisted with public relations and recruiting for an organization of independent film producers.

2007                                     Reporter, East Valley Tribune                                   Mesa, AZ

Covered crime and wrote features as a part-time reporter for 100,000-circulation suburban Phoenix newspaper. 

Education     

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

Masters of Mass Communication; GPA: 4.01; Outstanding Graduate Student; May 2011                        

Fordham University, New York                                                        

Bachelor of Arts; Magna cum Laude graduate; May 2009; GPA: 3.8.

Double major in Visual Arts with an emphasis in Photography and French Language; Certificate in American Catholic Studies at the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

Public Forums

Host, “Arizona Talks: Homelessness;” Host, Fran Lebowitz at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts; Host, Yotam Ottolenghi at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts; Speaker, ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business’ Executive MBA Program’s Business Strategy & Public Policy course; Guest, WBUR’s On Point; Host, Valeena Beety’s Manifesting Justice at the Academy for Justice at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Skills

Broadcast storytelling: Experienced broadcast writer and host for both radio and television

Reporting: Experienced investigative reporter, skilled in data analysis and long-form narrative writing and storytelling

Visual Storytelling/Technical Skills: Skilled photographer; trained in audio sound recording and editing with Adobe Audition; trained in video shooting and editing with FinalCut Pro

Honors

  • 2024 RTDNA Regional Murrow Award, Large Market Radio Continuing Coverage, “’The Zone:’ From the Courtroom to the Street the Last Year in Phoenix’s Largest Homeless Encampment”

  • 2024 Public Media Journalists Association, Continuing Coverage, Second Place, “’The Zone:’ From the Courtroom to the Street the Last Year in Phoenix’s Largest Homeless Encampment”

  • 2022 Phoenix Magazine, Best of the Valley, “Great 48”

  • 2021 Phoenix New Times, “Best Radio Host”

  • 2019 Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, Interview, “Changing Conversations Around Miscarriage and Infant Loss”

  • 2019 RTDNA National Murrow Award, Large Market Radio Continuing Coverage Team, “Arizona Teacher Strike”

  • Rocky Mountain Emmy Award, Specialty Assignment Report, “Essure Birth Control: Exposing a Pattern of Complaints and Complications”

  • Rocky Mountain Emmy Award, Business/Consumer, “Wedding Video-Let Joe Know”

  • National Emmy Award, “Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect”

  • George Foster Peabody Award, “Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect”

  • Edward R. Murrow Award, “Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect”

  • Finalist, Gerald Loeb Award, “Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect”

  • Emmy Award, Investigative Producing, “Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect”

  • Emmy Award, Military Producing, “PTSD: A Military Suicide Epidemic”

  • Finalist, Immigration Journalism Award, French-American Foundation

  • Robert F. Kennedy College Journalism Award, “Stateless in the Dominican Republic”

  • SPJ Multimedia In-depth Reporting Award, News21 “Latino America”

  • SPJ and Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication Award, online media project “Streets of Dreams”

  • Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit honor society; Phi Kappa Phi academic honors society; Loyola Scholarship recipient; National Honor Society; French National Honors Society