EXPERIENCE

Senior Journalist-Engineer — Polygraph/The Pudding

Jan. 2025 – Present (Full-time employee) | Aug. 2023 – Dec. 2024 (Project-based contactor)

Web engineer, data visualization designer, and data analyst for studio clients and editorial projects.

Developer for studio projects such as the Google Trends Time Capsule project celebrating 25 years of search, the Google Trends’ 2024 Olympic games data visualization page, and the Aspen Institute’s Social Trust Map.
Conducts data queries for YouTube's Culture & Trends team, supporting insights into global video trends and audience engagement.

Data and graphics journalist — Ag & Water Desk

Feb. 2024 – Present (Part-time)

Part-time data and graphics reporter for a collaborative reporting network focused on water, agriculture, and environmental issues in the Mississippi River Basin.

Scraped and analyzed hundreds of Missouri land application permits and identified numerous errors in locations of the fields where the industrial sludge would be spread.
Created maps and charts on state nutrient policies, Midwest agricultural drainage, and historical nutrient levels in Gulf-bound water sources for a series on nutrient runoff.

Senior visual journalist, data visualization — Axios

Sept. 2021 – Jan. 2025

Produced award-winning storytelling projects, including “How Canada's wildfires devastated U.S. air quality”, and “Can you trust your eyes?”, and “Pickup Trucks: From Workhorse to Joyride”.
Built a web app that interacts with the Datawrapper API to create and edit batches of charts at once.
Built a data portal for reporters to pull data from for a wide range of topics including stocks, crypto, mortgage rates, Census figures, and weather, and then export to the newsroom chart tool.

Data visual reporter — Delaware News Journal

June 2019 – Aug. 2021

Built the first statewide shooting database tracking every reported victim of gun violence since 2017.
Built a COVID-19 tracker for Delaware case, death, hospitalization and vaccination data.
Produced an award-winning visual walkthrough of how the Vaughn prison riot unfolded.

News application developer — The Philadelphia Inquirer

April 2016 – June 2019

Built a tool to compare congressional map proposals and their potential impact on elections.
Used precinct results to show how the 2018 midterms deepened Pennsylvania’s political divisions.

EDUCATION

Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Data Science

Temple University, Philadelphia

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism

Temple University, Philadelphia

SKILLS

Technical Skills: Data visualization, data cleaning and analysis, front-end web development, back-end web development, mapping and geospatial analysis, graphic design, web scraping, database management

Coding/Tools: JavaScript (ES6), HTML/CSS, D3.js, Svelte/Sveltekit, React, Node.js, R + Tidyverse, ggplot2, Shiny, Shell, Layer Cake, Mapbox, MapLibre, Leaflet, QGIS, Excel, Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, ChatGPT

AWARDS

Bronze, Infographics: Environment & Science, SND Awards, “How Canada's wildfires devastated U.S. air quality”
Award of Excellence, Topics: Artificial Intelligence, SND Awards, “Can you trust your eyes?”
Shortlist, Information Is Beautiful Awards, “Pickup Trucks: From Workhorse to Joyride”
Award of Excellence, Infographics (Regional/local), SND Awards, “Draw Your Neighborhood”
Best Use of Interactive Media and Best Investigation, Gannett, “18 Hours in C Building”
1st Place, Coronavirus in Communities Reporting, MDDC Press Awards, “Letters to the Past”
2nd Place, State Government Reporting, MDDC Press Awards, “Wealth and Race Still Affect Vaccine Rates in Delaware, and It's Getting Worse”
Best Use of Interactive Media, Gannett, “A Year of Gun Violence”
2nd Place, Multimedia Storytelling, PAPME Media Awards, “Stolen Childhoods”