About
As you can see, I’m re-doing my website! Check back for updates and cleaned-up archive material.
Things are starting to look a lot different around here. Come back for more changes as I pick up the digital pencil again.
Where have I been for almost a year??
I’ve been knee deep in website code, new media marketing strategy, and think thanks at my current position at the American Enterprise Institute. I passed my year mark over in their comms department in early November, which also synced with the launch of our major website redesign. While I’ve learned a lot about website production and marketing, I do miss blabbing on the Internet and jumping on the next big story. Am I a journalist? A think tanker? Marketing associate? Webby? Probably somewhere in between.
Here’s a look at what I’ve previously done:
I graduated from American University’s masters program in the journalism where I had the opportunity to write/edit/produce for The American Observer and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where I found my passion for freedom, human rights, foreign affairs, and social media (yes, they are all integrated!).
I grew up central Indiana and am a product of Indiana’s education system from toddler-hood to college at DePauw University where I majored in English Writing. I studied at American University in the summer of 2007 and instantly fell in love with the city and the school. In the summer of 2009, I took courses at Georgetown University through the Institute on Political Journalism prior to starting the masters program.
In college, you could say I had a one-track mind: journalism! I participated in the student newspaper, The DePauw and WGRE Radio as a news reporter and DJ of a radio show. I became editor-in-chief of the student magazine, The Cauldron, and found I liked longer-form writing that gave me more freedom. I interned at USA Weekend Magazine, Austin Woman Magazine, and Indianapolis Woman Magazine as an editorial intern, writing stories, researching, and editing. I then took a turn to TV with WTHR Channel 13, Eyewitness News in the summer of 2008 and capped off with NBC Nightly News in Washington in the summer of 2009. In DC, I freelanced for The Huffington Post, worked as a grad assistant at J-Lab, and Radio Free Europe, and was briefly a reporter for Hearst Corporation’s DC bureau, where I found a great mentor and friend.