WORK EXPERIENCE

Deputy Investigations Editor, PennLive/The Patriot-News (May 2024- Present)

• Edit investigative projects from conception through publication while reporting accountability investigations focused on government corruption, public spending and misuse of taxpayer funds.

• 2025 Livingston Awards finalist investigation exposing cronyism and wasteful spending in Dauphin County led officials to replace the county's longtime lobbying firm, cancel controversial contracts and save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

• Led a five-part investigation exposing how county officials awarded nearly 100 grants to private businesses — including some connected to their friends or family — while nonprofits and government agencies went underfunded. The reporting prompted the county to completely overhaul the program, including barring businesses from applying and implementing oversight measures to make sure the money is used appropriately.

Housing Insecurity Reporter,  The Arizona Republic (Sept. 2022 - Aug. 2023)

I wrote breaking news, enterprise and investigative stories on affordable housing and homelessness in the fifth-largest city in the U.S.

• Reporting on people throughout the U.S. competing for scarce spots on Arizona’s affordable housing waitlists was featured on the front page of USA Today and inspired a bill in the state legislature that would have prioritized Arizonans for local housing programs. It received a 2023 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) honorable mention.
• Persistent coverage of developers displacing mobile homeowners prompted state legislators to increase the amount of money displaced families can receive from the state.

Enterprise Reporter, Pittsburgh's Public Source (Sept. 2019 - June 2021)

Won Pennsylvania’s Emerging Journalist Award in 2021 for accountability reporting on criminal justice and mental health.

• Series on how court debt traps low-income Pennsylvanians in a cycle of poverty led the county to obtain a $50K grant to implement court fine and fee reforms. The series won several regional investigative awards and was a finalist for an Online News Award in explanatory reporting.
• Sustained reporting on inadequate mental health and medical care at the Allegheny County Jail resulted in the Jail Oversight Board implementing additional oversight measures.

English Teaching Assistant,  Fulbright Taiwan (Aug. 2018 - July 2019)

• Taught English at a public elementary school in Taichung, Taiwan as part of a competitive grant program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

SKILLS

• Editing
• Public records
• Data visualization
  
• Data analysis
  
• R
• Excel/Google Sheets
• International work experience (Taiwan, Italy)

SELECTED HONORS

• Livingston Finalist in Local Reporting, 2025
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist (collaborative project), 2025
• Edward R. Murrow Award (collaborative project), 2025 
• Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association First Amendment Award, 2025
• Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Best in Business honorable mention, 2023
• Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association and The Lenfest Institute Emerging Journalist Award, 2021
• Online News Awards (ONA) finalist in explanatory reporting, 2020 
• Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers Public Service Award, 2020

EDUCATION 

Mandarin Chinese Program | National Taiwan Normal University | Sept. 2023 - Feb. 2024

MA, Investigative Journalism | Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University | Roy W. Howard Fellow | Aug. 2022 | GPA: 4.0

BA, Nonfiction Writing & Political Science | University of Pittsburgh | Apr. 2017 | GPA: 3.95 (summa cum laude)