Journalist | Editor | Storyteller
PROJECTS
Working in local news means shorter stories and bigger interests among community players. Despite this, my work has grown with a polymathic approach into an appetite for numerous subjects across different media. Having the tenacity to secure a winning photo or the determination to interview difficult sources have been among the boldest factors in producing my best works over the years.
JOURNALISM TO THE STARS
Growing up in Los Angeles with an allure to film and television brought me close to a wide variety of artists and professionals of all stripes. From painters to musicians, astronauts to activists, cosplayers to Academy Award-winning directors, there was never a dull moment working in Southern California.
ADVOCATE FOR LOCAL NEWS
The endangered existence of local news across the nation requires more journalists to pay ever greater attention to local matters. Obstacles in reporting has, throughout my career, fomented stronger senses of skepticism and independence necessary to look at local matters with any sense of sober clarity.
MASSLIVE
September 2022 – Present
In September 2022, I left Los Angeles behind and moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, after I joined MassLive as a breaking/trending news reporter. Here, my reporting expanded to cover elections and politics, from the days of the 2024 Republican New Hampshire primary, to the effects that the war in Gaza had on residents and voters, and finally to the 2024 Presidential Election and the first months of the second Trump administration.
POLITICS AND ELECTIONS
Growing up with a passion for American history and United States presidents, I have had chances in my career to witness and cover electoral politics in action. At MassLive, I dived deep into covering national politics on the local level, from the Republican primary in New Hampshire to the general election in November. The arrival of a second Trump administration left me with the chance to continue reporting on politics and the issues affecting Massachusetts from the impacts on higher education to detainments by immigration agents.
HARVARD LETTER SAYS UNIVERSITY SHARES 'COMMON GROUND' WITH TRUMP ADMIN
May 12, 2025
After the Trump administration accused Harvard University of “engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law," Harvard President Alan Garber replied back with a letter to express their shared values. This came as the White House threatened to pull the university's federal funding.
TUFTS GRAD STUDENT ARRESTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS TAKEN TO LOUISIANA, LAWYER SAYS
March 26, 2025
Following the arrest of a Tufts University graduate student, she was transferred across New England and eventually was detained at a facility in Louisiana. The legal battle that ensued led to her release, with lawyers and the ACLU defending her free speech rights that federal officials said were a risk to national security.
WILL N.H. SHOCK THE NATION? GRANITE STATE VOTERS HAVE THEIR SAY AHEAD OF PIVOTAL PRIMARY
Jan. 22, 2024
Co-written with politics editor John L. Micek, we reported a series of stories on the potential outcome of the Republican primary election in New Hampshire. We spoke with voters about their preferred Republican candidate and why GOP voters were or were not voting for then-former President Donald Trump.
PROJECTS
My professional journey has rewarded me with opportunities to go beyond my goal of political journalism. It has brought me to cover community news, campus bureaucracy, significant figures and niche establishments. Below are a sampling of projects with which my passions and basic reporting came together in a perfect symphony.
WORCESTER POLICE USED EXCESSIVE FORCE, ENGAGED IN SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, DOJ INVESTIGATION FINDS
Dec. 9, 2024
In November 2022, the Department of Justice announced a federal probe into the Worcester Police Department for possible patterns of excessive force or discriminatory policing based on race or sex. Over two years later, DOJ officials claim the department engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that violated people’s civil rights
A WOMAN WAS KILLED AT ANGIES BODYWORK SPA IN WORCESTER. HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BUSINESS
Dec. 14, 2023
As people began gathering with family and friends on Thanksgiving, one woman’s body was left inside a small dilapidated Worcester business for hours after she had been shot in the head. Nine hours later, a man flagged down Worcester police. A woman had been shot and killed inside, and the suspected shooter fled.
THE ANDOVER BOOKSTORE IS NOT ONLY THE OLDEST IN MASS. — IT'S THE OLDEST IN THE US
October 2, 2023
Several steps away from a sidewalk on Main Street in Andover, Massachusetts, this bookstore carries with it a long history as the oldest independent bookstore in the United States, first established the same year Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Edgar Allen Poe were born.
“I grew up in a world where the incentive to learn came from within me, as did a sense of whom to trust and whom to believe.”