Experience

The Public's Radio 89.3 FM

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Newport Bureau Reporter

  • Dec 2022 - Present



Women's Education Initiative

• Middletown, Rhode Island

• Founder and President

  • Jan 2008 - Present

  • Founded this educational nonprofit to offer scholarships to young women overseas who have the desire but not the resources to pursue a college education. • Lead all-volunteer executive staff to secure funding to sponsor scholarships for women in the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone and Liberia • The first scholarship recipient earned her bachelor's degree in 2007 and returned 10 years later to earn her master's degree in education. • In March 2019, the Women's Education Initiative awarded a scholarship to a young woman in Rwanda to support her third year of studies.



Guilford College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Visiting Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2018

  • Expanded curriculum of journalism courses, including a photojournalism course, offered for the first time at the college • Managed the college’s participation in the Pulitzer Campus Consortium • Organized National Geographic contributing photographer Amy Toensing's visit and led a committee to select students for the Pulitzer Center’s annual fellowship • Mentored student fellows who traveled to India and Ethiopia for their projects • Expanded curriculum of journalism courses, including a photojournalism course, offered for the first time at the college • Managed the college’s participation in the Pulitzer Campus Consortium • Organized National Geographic contributing photographer Amy Toensing's visit and led a committee to select students for the Pulitzer Center’s annual fellowship • Mentored student fellows who traveled to India and Ethiopia for their projects



Allegheny College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Journalism in the Public Interest

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2016

  • Developed courses and curriculum for a new minor, including News Writing, Beat Reporting, Covering Conflict, Topics in Journalism, Photojournalism and Multimedia Journalism • Created an annual journalism conference and multimedia workshop to bring accomplished journalists to give presentations and mentor student journalists • Co-hosted a live, weekly radio show with guests and interviews (This Week at Allegheny and The Lunch Hour) • Wrote a proposal and secured funding for a new internship program for Allegheny College students at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette



University of Alaska Fairbanks

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Snedden Endowed Chair/Department of Journalism

  • Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

  • Taught two undergraduate seminar classes • Designed Journalism in Perspective as a course for collaboration and discussion anchored on current events, ethics and journalism fundamentals. Included observation, interviewing, and critical thinking • In Snedden Lectures: The Eyes Have It, the students had the semester to propose, research and produce a photo documentary project using any and all media they chose to tell the narrative. I later accompanied a UAF student on an embed with the local 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan from December 2011 to January 2012. I remained in Afghanistan until March 2012. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Christian Science Monitor, the Associated Press and National Public Radio published our work.



Corvallis Gazette Times

• United States
• Facilities Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Higher Education Reporter

  • Oct 2009 - Aug 2010

  News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work. News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work.



The Associated Press

• United States
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Photographer

  • Aug 2000 - Jan 2003

  News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work. News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work.



Naples Daily News

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Photojournalist

  • Jul 1998 - Nov 1998

  Contract position during break in graduate school studies. News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work. Contract position during break in graduate school studies. News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work.



The Daily Breeze

• Torrance, California

• Photojournalist

  • Jun 1997 - Aug 1997

  Summer contract work before heading to graduate school. News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work. Summer contract work before heading to graduate school. News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work.



Reuters Limited and The Associated Press

• Cairo Governorate, Egypt

• Contract Photojournalist

  • 1988 - 1991

  News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work. News photography and reporting in the United States and abroad, including breaking news, sports and features. Did enterprise and assignment work.