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 with the Tulsa Local News Initiative, where I serve as story editor for a new nonprofit newsroom serving northeast Oklahoma.

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 as editor.

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 American University in 2019, I served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Eagle. It remains my favorite — and most difficult — job I’ve had in journalism.

Outside of work, you can find me scouting out which concerts I can afford, watching new standup specials and documentaries or tuning into a Dallas Mavericks game.