Professional Experience
Marketing Director, Discovery Green Conservancy 2023- present
Marketing Manager, Discovery Green Conservancy 2019 - 2023
Deputy Digital Editor, Planning and Special Projects, Houston Chronicle 2017 to 2019
Finalist Pulitzer Prize: Breaking news reporting, Harvey coverage, 2018
Senior Web Producer, Features, Houston Chronicle 2012 to 2017
Texas APME: Best online newspaper 2013
Web Producer, Houston Chronicle 2009 to 2012
Freelance Journalist, Houston Chronicle 2008 to 2009
Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley Aug. 2005 to Dec. 2007
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 2005/2006
Goldman Prize for Excellence in International Reporting: 50 years after the death of Diego Rivera Mexican artists fight to keep painting alive
Masters project: Nicaraguan Dreams, Revolutionary Baggage
Intern, Associated Press June 2006 to Aug. 2006
Intern and Freelance Journalist, Albuquerque Journal June 2004 to Aug. 2005
Education
Leadership Houston alum, Class XLII
Rice University Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives
M.J. 2007 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism
M.A. 2007 University of California, Berkeley, Latin American Studies
B.A. 2005 University of New Mexico, Communication and Journalism and Spanish
Volunteer Experience
Certified Texas Master Naturalist