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About Me

I'm an award-winning journalist currently working at the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun newspapers as a multimedia reporter. I have a particular interested in reporting on social issues, issues affecting diverse communities, and crime.

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I worked at NEWS 1130 CKWX in Vancouver as a web editor and radio reporter as part of an award-winning digital team before heading to Alberta's capital in January 2020. I was also shortlisted for a regional RTDNA award in the data storytelling category. 

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I've covered city hall, the environment, community stories, and the arts for Burnaby NOW, The New West Record, and Victoria News, and wrote features and community stories for Squamish Chief where I also had a city hall column. I've reported and produced a podcast episode for BBC Outlook and wrote a feature for Huffington Post Canada.

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My first paid journalism gig was for CBC Vancouver's North by Northwest â€“ I sold the show a podcast episode I made while still in journalism school.

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I have a post-graduate certificate in journalism from Langara College and a Honors BA double major in criminology and visual arts from Western University Canada. 

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Outside of work, I'm interested in the arts and currently taking acting classes. I also like painting and can play five musical instruments.

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Stories

Crime reporting. Data journalism. Investigative journalism. Feature writing. Daily news.

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Award-nominated data journalism

Elevators at 20 SkyTrain stations out of service more than 30 days in 2019 'unacceptable': advocate – NEWS 1130 (Dec. 20, 2019) 

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This story was shortlisted for a Regional RTDNA award in the Digital Storytelling category.

It was reported using an original data set using nearly a year's worth of tweets about elevator outages by TransLink.

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At the Edmonton Journal, I also used archival data to create my own data set to track and measure the length of COVID-19 outbreaks in the city.

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Sites of Edmonton's longest COVID-19 outbreaks in workplaces can stay open despite new closure rules -- Edmonton Journal (May 19, 2021

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