Having just graduated Summa Cum Laude from Sarah Lawrence College in June ’25, I am a writer, editor, and researcher, intertwining wit, intelligence, and enthusiasm with vivid and direct storytelling. With three years as a head editor and writer at collegiate publications (Sarah Lawrence College’s The Phoenix & Oxford University’s Oxford Student), I can turn a simple Q&A into an engaging narrative. I also have years of experience in the events space, working as an administrative assistant both for SLC’s Events program and back home in St. Louis at a local art gallery/event space. I am able to approach any topic, issue, or article with nuance and sophistication, and am currently open to work in the journalism, media, or events spaces.

As a teenager, I had somewhat of an eidetic memory. I could remember pages of text, detailed images, and rows of numbers (which only came in handy on a Pi Day competition). I used to have a big dream that I would be one of the lucky few recruited out of high school by the CIA. Today, the memorization chunk of my brain has been replaced by chronic migraines, but my fascination with words, etymology, and research deep-dives has continued and inspired me throughout my collegiate experience.

In a world that honors familial ties over job preparedness and movies reviving comfort brands in lieu of telling today’s stories, major journalism has also gladly accepted a shift. Many major publications aim to push an opinion, advance a product, and create a profit. Anyone can write an article, anyone can draw some type of half-formed tale from an interview transcript, and slap a quippy headline on it. What matters, especially in today’s media landscape, is relating it to human emotions and tapping into individual personalities. With the ability to be in constant communication with humans across the globe, whether on WhatsApp, Twitter/X, or in the chatbox of a Twitch stream, we are tapped into so many different news reports and pressing articles, many of which may not apply directly to the reader. Rather, relatability can be established solely through personal anecdotes of an Andalusian shop owner, through the real words of a mother in Yemen, through descriptions given by a teary-eyed seven-year-old in Nebraska.

When I’ve covered life-changing articles, I try to find a tidbit that applies to me. Not to make myself the center of the story, but rather to instill passion, a need to complete an assignment, as if others are counting on me. When I reported on the Larry Ray trial, a three-month court case on a so-called ‘sex cult’ that occurred at my alma mater, Sarah Lawrence, I was the only current SLC student in the room, sitting amongst the NBC and NYT reporters, taking notes on my pocket-sized legal pad. While none of the explicit actions occurred on campus, the incidents have been forever tied to the institution. When Joe Biden came to campus to vouch for Kathy Hochul’s election, his five-minute speech was not really the story. I stood at the barricade of the press pen along the school’s North Lawn, after interviewing the students who were kicked out of their dormitory at 7 am by Secret Service, the snipers knelt inside top-floor dorm rooms laden with blind-box plushies, empty Marlboro Reds packs, and poetry homework.

My interest in writing my own anecdotal pieces was inspired by the realism found in Jon Krakauer’s detail-laden Into the Wild. I was touched by his ability to thread together dozens of interviews with people who had only had minute-long exchanges with McCandless into a clean telling of the hiker’s mysterious last years, making it seem like Krakauer was hiding behind a tree watching the events play out rather than researching the events years after the hiker’s death. I’ve read all of his published books, and have even written my own essay researching further into the FLDS community he unpacks in Under the Banner of Heaven, linking the interviewed and discussed members to today’s FLDS mainstream community (HBO’s Big Love, Warren Jeffs’ clan and its downfall, and various FLDS deserters who are now full-time commentary YouTubers).