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Lunch Break, Social Media & Graphic Design Volunteer
Red Bank, NJ | December 2020 - PRESENT
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On a volunteer basis, I am offering up my communications skills and experiences to a local non-profit offering food bank services and self-sufficiency life skills programs to the greater community. Coordinating projects with the marketing and communications directors to showcase both the organization's impact on the community through social media storytelling, while making available the resources we and other community organizations offer.
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Associated Press (AP) Elections, Vote Entry Operator - Outcall Team

Middletown, NJ | November 2020 - PRESENT

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Worked tirelessly the entire 2020 Election Week as a contractor receiving and inputting voter data into the AP's VoteTracker system. It was my duty as a member of the outcall team to phone ahead to stringers and clerks receiving electoral counts, establish a timeline for when their precinct is expected to announce them, and ensure there is a line of communication for our vote entry operators to receive this data on schedule.

 

Days following Election Night were concentrated towards web-scraping county websites to cross-reference results with numbers posted on state databases. I am especially proud to have contributed in the effort to confirm Pennsylvania mail-in ballot numbers, outcalling to county clerks for estimates on the amount of provisional and absentee ballots left to count. Consistent contact with my team was maintained through Slack, where flagged voter data was reported, while also utilizing Amazon WorkSpaces and Connect, Google Sheets, and Microsoft Authenticator, for secure and accurate data collection.

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The Army Times, Editorial Intern
Springfield, VA | 2016

My first newsroom experience, I was quick to pick up on the military terminology the publication's senior reporters were keen to. I developed regular sources and interpersonal relationships with Army Public Affairs officers through our daily correspondences. The more Army stories I drafted and military personnel I interviewed, the more I learned about the culture behind what drives our service members. The summer spent with the Army Times pushed me out of my comfort zone as a journalist, as I learned to work out of stressful environments, such as Capitol Hill and the Pentagon, when covering committee hearings and briefings.
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Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Marist College Chapter President
Poughkeepsie, NY | April 2017 - April 2018
 
I acted as the primary representative for a student organization focused on professional development and journalistic integrity, both on-campus and at national conferences. It was the mission of all club officers to communicate the importance of a vigilant Fourth Estate with active First Amendment rights through student engagement, speaker and movie screening events, and our own published content. I managed and frequently updated the chapter's social media accounts, contributing media from our events and live-tweeting relevant lectures happening on campus. I collaborated with the school newspaper The Circle to pitch membership content and have it printed under The SPJ News Service feature column.
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I also served as the Chapter's Social Media Coordinator (April 2016 - April 2017).
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  • Events the Marist SPJ Executive Board and I were able to accomplish :
    • Organized and live-streamed panel discussion "What Kind of Student Media Should Marist Have?" for Ethics Week, in April 2018.
    • Toured WNYC Newsroom and talked with program producers, in April 2018.
    • Held alumni networking event for membership through Skype, in November 2017.
    • Played Fake News Game Show created by SPJ Florida for News Engagement Day (10/3/2017).
    • Screened documentary Tickling Giants (2016) with a dialogue on Free Speech rights afterwards, in March 2017.
    • My first year, the Chapter hosted documentarian Sebastian Junger for a screening of Korengal (2014) and a Q&A session, in January 2015.
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Marist College Student-Journalist
Poughkeepsie, NY | September 2014 - May 2018
 
Wrote stories as a contributing writer for various staff advised or student-edited blogs, papers, and news sites. The main focus was researching and reporting topics developing on-campus or in the surrounding Poughkeepsie/Hudson Valley area. I was always thinking of the bigger picture and was drawn towards long-form editorial style storytelling that would resonate with readers and students alike.​
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  • Diversity Works Magazine (access to PDF here) - Assigned to cover diversity, race and inclusion related events and lectures.
    • Author Cone Explains The Cross and the Lynching Tree (page 10)
    • Reflecting on a Visit to Liberia (page 20)
    • Journalist Kevin Merida Inspires Marist Community (page 26)
    • A Screening of the Central Park Five (page 32)
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Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), Marist College Chapter Director of Finance

Poughkeepsie, NY | April 2015 - April 2016

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One of my first leadership positions had me overseeing the financial record-keeping for Marist PRSSA's club accounts with the university's College Activities department and the School of Communications. A young-professional organization, we were constantly trying to attract and retain new membership. I was tasked with updating the club's active member roster, and collecting dues for the governing organization, PRSA National. A great amount of detail went into preparing allocations for the club's funds each semester, working closely with the event planning committee, Chapter President, Director of Chapter Programming, and Sodexo catering for every general meeting, workshop, and speaker series.

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Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY

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Bachelor's Degree, May 2018

Graduated Cum Laude

Major: Communications, with concentrations in Journalism and Public Relations

Capstone Research: Opinion Formation and Interpersonal Communication In Social Situations

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  • Accolades : 

    • Marist College​ Presidential Academic Scholarship

    • 2nd Place Team in Fox Trap Advertising Competition

    • Dean's List

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  • Organizations & Affiliations :

    • Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)​

    • Sponsored member of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)

    • Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA)

    • The HuMarists Improv Troupe, featured player and performer for three semesters​

University of Delaware, Study Abroad Program

London, England     |     2017

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The Imperial College of London partnered with University of Delaware's summer journalism program.

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The program examined the trends and range of perspectives among British tabloids, and their parallels to American news media (political discourse and Brexit).

 

Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici

Florence Italy     |     2016

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Studied figure drawing, Florentine history, Greek & Roman Mythology, the Italian Language and Philosophy.

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  • Traveled to over 10 countries and six other regions of Italy.​​

    • Includes​: the Amalfi Coast, Belgium, Cinque Terre, Denmark, France, Germany, The Italian Riviera, Monaco, The Netherlands, Naples, Rome, Sweden, and Switzerland

  • Perfect attendance for the Yoga Club.

Washington Media Institute

Washington, D.C.     |     2016

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Multimedia journalism training program that matched participants with suitable internships (The Army Times).

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  • Toured the CNN and Washington Post newsrooms, the Susan Davis International PR firm, and government sites like the U.S. Capitol.

  • Hosted guest speakers and workshop events to hone professional, multimedia and storytelling abilities.

  • Learned Adobe Creative Cloud applications, while meeting deadlines for projects each week.

    • Combined website creation, editorial skills​ and video packages for projects like:

      • Interviewing attendants at D.C.'s Pride parade on what it means to be an LGBTQ+ Ally.​

      • Editing man-on-the-street segments (usually comedic questions) about the upcoming election.

      • Go out and research, vet sources, and create a news piece on the maintenance that goes in mowing the National Mall - all within three hours.

  • Summer semester culminated in a commission project (The SpinOff ) pitch for a website targeted towards Millennial aged young professionals in the Greater D.C. area to potential investor: The Washington Post.

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