Professional Experience
Freelance Reporter, Paid Speaker, and Industry Analyst, (10/2025 - present)• Undertake and complete investigative projects and other enterprise journalism for regional and national news organizations
• As an expert panelist, present on the demographic, societal, and technological challenges ahead for public research universities across the next 25 years
• Draft white paper entitled "Generational Change: Public Research Universities and the Next Quarter-Century (2026-2050)"
Senior Reporter – The Chronicle of Higher Education, (11/2021 - 10/2025)
Staff Reporter – (01/2018 - 10/2021)
• Pitch and produce original breaking-news content, medium-term enterprise analyses, and long-term investigative projects
• Spearhead and collaborate on FOIA and open-records requests, as well as on data-driven and agenda-setting projects
• Code and deploy a suite of free or low-cost reporting and data-collection assets
Data Reporter – The Chronicle of Higher Education, (04/2016 – 12/2017)
• Collect, clean, analyze, and lead the publication of The Chronicle’s semiannual chief executive compensation projects
• Pitch and produce data-driven articles, and collaborate with reporters
Data Reporter – Saint Paul Pioneer Press, (02/2015 – 04/2016)
• Produce data-driven stories and online interactive features
• Assist reporters in learning data skills or applying them to their beats
• Maintain and build in-house databases for reporters and editors, plus an online data repository for the public
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Programming Languages
• Python, using Django, Django Admin, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, scikit-learn, Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Dask, FastAPI, Flask, GeoPandas, IPython, tabula, PDFPlumber, PyTorch, Seaborn, Streamlit, Altair
• JavaScript, using D3.js, Mapbox GL JS, Leaflet.js, Node.js, Highcharts JS, jQuery, Preact, RawGraphs, React, Scrollama, TypeScript, Vue
• R, using tidyverse, ggplot2, caret, keras
• Bash & command-line tools, such as csvkit
• Structured Query Language
• Regex / Regular Expression
• Ruby
Awards and Honors
• Finalist — 2023 D.C. Society for Professional Journalists Dateline Awards: Features, Newsletters/Trade Publications
• Finalist — 2021 D.C. Society for Professional Journalists Dateline Awards: Features, Newsletters/Trade Publications
• Finalist — 2019 Education Writers Association National Awards for Education Reporting: Eddie Prize
• Honorable Mention — 2019 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business Contest: Explanatory, Medium-sized Newsroom
• Finalist — 2019 Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. Awards: Investigations Triggered by Breaking News
• 3rd Place — 2019 National Headliner Awards: Education Writing
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Associations
• Society of Professional Journalists member since 2011
• Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. member since 2013
• Society of American Business Editors and Writers member since 2013
Other Courses and Certificates
DAT204x: Introduction to R for Data Science
Issued March 2017
edX, Datacamp, and Microsoft
Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Boot Camp - Columbia, Missouri
Attended January 12-16, 2015
Doing Journalism With Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools
Issued Summer 2014
Data Driven Journalism MOOC
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