Experience

Illinois Public Media

• United States
• Radio and Television Broadcasting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Broadcast Journalist

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  I cover race, education and rural issues with radio spots and features.

• Broadcast Journalist

  • Oct 2021 - Feb 2022

  I wrote 2-3 radio spots a week, primarily about education. Each spot included a wrap, a cut copy and often a digital story.



New Haven Independent

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Reporter

  • Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

  I covered New Haven's schools and neighborhoods. I wrote 1-2 articles a day, including a mixture of breaking news and feature articles. I covered New Haven's schools and neighborhoods. I wrote 1-2 articles a day, including a mixture of breaking news and feature articles.



Charlottesville Tomorrow

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• News Reporter

  • Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

  + balanced award-winning long-form articles and features with coverage of breaking news+ covered growth, development, affordable housing, and more+ digested complex planning conversations with data visualization and human-centered storytelling

• News Intern

  • Jan 2018 - Aug 2018

  + full-time reporter+ write original web and print articles weekly+ responsible for own photography, online publication



Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

• Intern

  • Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

  + Monday morning volunteer for With Good Reason under Sarah McConnell + helped write leads, book guests, and make editing decisions heard at NPR stations from Florida to Alaska + Monday morning volunteer for With Good Reason under Sarah McConnell + helped write leads, book guests, and make editing decisions heard at NPR stations from Florida to Alaska



Struggle for a Name

• Writer, Producer, Host

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2017

  + Yale Parker Huang Fellow + created Struggle for a Name, a podcast about women's memories of a 1980s anti-caste movement in India and the name of a university + collected 35 oral histories in Marathi and Hindi, now housed at the Jawaharlal Nehru University archives + wrote articles for The Wire and Medium + Yale Parker Huang Fellow + created Struggle for a Name, a podcast about women's memories of a 1980s anti-caste movement in India and the name of a university + collected 35 oral histories in Marathi and Hindi, now housed at the Jawaharlal Nehru University archives + wrote articles for The Wire and Medium



Yale University Art Gallery

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Exhibitions Assistant

  • Sep 2012 - May 2016

  + on-site art conservation, + exhibitions maintenance + teaching new student hires + digitizing gallery documents + on-site art conservation, + exhibitions maintenance + teaching new student hires + digitizing gallery documents



Mann Deshi Bank

• India
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Design Intern

  • 2014 - 2014

  + publicized locally-run, rural microfinance projects + designed and implemented www.manndeshi.org + publicized locally-run, rural microfinance projects + designed and implemented www.manndeshi.org