Professional summary
A seasoned journalist with years of experience presenting the news in both traditional and innovative ways. Passionate about blending journalistic values with tools such as cartography, data visualization and animation to create journalism that can reveal, explain, entertain, inform and hold power to account.
Experience
Developer/data visualization specialist
March 2007-present
The Oregonian
Design online presentations for special projects; design and create interactive maps and data visualizations; analyze data; maintain and update databases of legislative activity and state education data; maintain and update backend system for collecting election results and the front-end system for displaying those results in real time on Election Night. Pioneered newsroom’s use of interactive digital content and its early entry into social media spaces.
Page designer
The Oregonian
Designed news pages — including several years as Page One designer — on deadline for 300,000-circulation metro daily newspaper. Included photo selection, caption writing and space budgeting for three editions every night.
Design editor/Features designer
The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.
Copy editor/page designer
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Education
Master of Science
Cartography and GIS Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022
Bachelor of Journalism
University of Missouri-Columbia
Recent awards
The Forgotten Four
- First place, Best Web Project, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest, 2024
- Third place, Digital Presentation of a Single News Topic, National Headliner Awards, 2024
Publishing Prejudice
- First place, Best Web Project, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest, 2023
The Safest Place
- First place, Digital Presentation of a Single News Topic, National Headliner Awards, 2023
- First place, Local Media Innovation Award, National Headliner Awards, 2023
- First place, Multimedia Storytelling, Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards, 2023
- Second place, Best Web Project, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest, 2023
Under the Gun
- First place, Best Web Project, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest, 2022
Poems for the Pandemic
- First place, Best Web Project, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest, 2021
Polluted by Money
- First place, Explanatory Reporting, Best of the West, 2020
- First place, Collier Prize for State Government Accountability, 2020
No Mercy
- First place, Online Storytelling Project of the Year, Pictures of the Year International, 2020
- First place, Best Web Project, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest, 2020
Presentations
Measure 50: Winners and Losers. Poster presented at the GIS In Action Conference, May 2018, Portland, OR.
Mapping Property Taxes. Metro Regional Land Information System subscriber meeting, February 2016, Portland, OR.
Maps for the Masses. Lightning talk, Portland Area GIS Users, September 2015, Portland, OR.
Front Page Design. Society for News Design Annual Conference, September 2006, Orlando, FL.