Growing up in the Dallas suburbs, my dream was to move to Washington, D.C. and be in the room where it happens. It took attending American University and working in the nation’s capital to realize where my heart lied: reporting local news from the rooms where no one else is listening.

I’m lucky enough to pursue that mission as story editor for the Tulsa Flyer, a new nonprofit newsroom serving northeast Oklahoma, and The Oklahoma Eagle, a historic newspaper that has served Tulsa’s Black community for more than 100 years.

Before moving to Tulsa in 2025, I worked as an editor and environmental reporter for the Fort Worth Report, the city’s only nonprofit news outlet established in 2021. The newsroom took home numerous awards and second-place Newsroom of the Year honors from Texas Managing Editors during my tenure on the editing team.

I first came to Cowtown in 2020 to become an environmental reporter for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram through Report for America. Prior to that role, I was an associate editor for several trade publications in Dallas.

Before graduating from AU in 2019, I served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Eagle. It remains my favorite — and most difficult — job in journalism.

Outside of work, you can find me running on whatever nature trail I can find, scouting out which concerts I can afford, watching a new documentary or tuning into a Dallas Mavericks game.