QUALIFICATIONS
• Proficient in Audacity, Soundslides, Photoshop, FinalCut and basic HTML and CSS.
• Familiar with a variety of video and audio equipment.
• Experience uploading content and modifying content and design via website back-ends
• Comfortable with Macs and PCs.
• Extensive experience in production at daily, weekly and monthly publications.
• Strong working knowledge of AP Style.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Tombstone Epitaph – Jan. 2009 to May 2009
Online & multimedia editor
• As the first online and multimedia editor, organized and implemented a system for reporters to post their own reporting online. Duties included teaching reporters how to create multimedia elements for their stories, including audio clips, video and slideshows.
• Assisted the editor-in-chief with production duties, including copyediting, planning layout and working with reporters to get the best version of their stories in by deadline.
• Strove to create an online product that was separate from but complementary to the print edition.

Arizona Daily Wildcat – Aug. 2008 to May 2009
Online & multimedia editor, illustrator
• Worked closely with all sections in the newsroom to produce audio clips, videos, podcasts, slideshows and other multimedia content for Dailywildcat.com.
• Selected and managed a team of webmasters, videographers, on-camera reporters and podcasters.
• Created illustrations for print editions, manually and electronically.
• Along with the editor in chief, negotiated content-sharing with UATV (U of A’s student television station)
• Assumed position of online editor in Feb. 2009, when former online editor resigned.
• Posted content and made changes to Web site

Native Perspectives – April 2008 to April 2009
Illustrator
•Created illustrations for print in the biannual news journal produced by the Native American Journalists Association’s University of Arizona Student Chapter.

Tucson Weekly – June 2008 to Aug. 2008
Reporter intern
•Wrote event previews and general news stories, fact-checked restaurant listings, copyedited and took photographs. Contributed to local campaign blog ScrambleWatch08, run by Tucson Weekly reporter and UA adjunct faculty member Jim Nintzel.

RedBlue Magazine – Aug. 2007 to May 2008
Illustrator
•Produced all illustrations for print in the monthly magazine and contributed to content planning.

RESEARCH
•Conducted a group research project to determine the effectiveness of the University of Arizona’s journalism program in inspiring students to pursue a career in journalism. The study was used by journalism Professor Shahira Fahmy and the School of Journalism’s accreditation board to support the effectiveness of the journalism program. Pending publication.

EDUCATION
University of Arizona – 2005 to 2009
•Obtained a Bachelor’s degree in journalism with a thematic minor in studio art & art history
•Graduated cum laude - May 2009

Pima Community College – 2003 to 2005
•Completed Arizona General Education Certificate

ACHIEVEMENTS
•University of Arizona School of Journalism Award for Excellence in Online Journalism 2009
•Arizona Daily Wildcat Alumni Award for 2008-2009
•Arizona Daily Wildcat Award for Excellence in Multimedia Editing for 2008-2009
•Journalism department scholarship for summer 2008
•Mark Finley Gold Pen Award for Beginning Journalists 3rd place for spring 2006
•Journalism GPA 4.0

ACTIVITIES

•Wired Journalists member
•Marine Awareness Conservation Society member
•Notetaker for the Disability Resource Center at the University of Arizona
•Volunteer in emergency room at El Dorado Hospital in Tucson, Ariz.