Education

B.A. English, DePaul University, 2013

Jobs

Detroit editor, The Conversation, March 2025 to present

Caregiving and health equity reporter, New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative, Nov. 2023 to Aug. 2024

New Voices fellow, Detroit Metro Times, Nov. 2022 to Nov. 2023

Environment and energy reporting fellow, Planet Detroit x Energy News Network, March 2022 to Sept. 2022

Associate producer, Alive in Detroit, Feb. 2022 to July 2022

Podcast editor and reporter, WDET 101.9 FM x Science Gallery Detroit, Dec. 2021 to March 2022

Education reporter, Chalkbeat Detroit, Jan. 2020 to Jan. 2021

Civic reporter, WDET 101.9 FM, July 2019 to Dec. 2019

Grants, Awards, Fellowships & Workshops

Periplus fellow, 2026

USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism national fellow, 2025

Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit Chapter- third place, feature reporting, digital, 2024

Society for Features Journalism’s Excellence-in-Features Awards-second Place, inclusion and representation in features, division I, 2024

Journalism and Women’s Symposium Health Journalism fellow, 2024

Solutions Journalism Network HEAL fellow, 2023

Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit Chapter- second place, feature Reporting, digital; third place- feature reporting, digital, 2022

Pulitzer Center grantee, Tracked & Traced WDET 101.9 FM x Science Gallery Detroit, 2022

Vox Media Writers Workshop graduate, 2022

Michigan Press Association Best Newspaper Contest- second place, news media-statewide government/education news, 2021

Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit Chapter- second place, feature reporting, digital; third place, community/local reporting, digital, 2021

Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Maynard 200 storytelling graduate, 2021

Craig Newmark Education Reporting scholarship winner, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2021

Michigan Press Association Best Newspaper Contest-second place, best feature writing, weekly class A, 2020

Michigan Press Association Best Newspaper Contest-first place spot news story, weekly class A, 2020

Peter Lisagor finalist for Best Education Reporting in a Non-Daily Newspaper or Magazine, 2018

Emerging journalist fellow for Journalism and Women’s Symposium, 2019

Reporting fellow for the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources’ Water Quality Institute, 2019

Reporting fellow for the Detroit Equity Action Lab’s Race and Justice Reporting Initiative, 2019

Civic reporting fellow for City Bureau, 2016

WBEZ/Vocalo storytelling workshop graduate, 2015

Publications

YES! Magazine · One Day Magazine · Civil Eats · Next City · Eater · PopMatters · EdSurge · MindSite News · Energy News Network · Chicago Reader · Chicago Reporter · South Side Weekly · Detroit Free Press · Detroit News · Detroit Metro Times · Detroit PBS · WDET 101.9 FM · Bridge Detroit · Bridge Michigan · Chalkbeat · Planet Detroit · Detour Detroit · Tostada Magazine · Buffalo News · Democrat & Chronicle · WXXI News · New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative