Freelance Journalist
Specializing in pop culture, community news, parenting, and personality profiles. Contributor to:
The Boston Globe Patch.com (weekly parenting column)
Bowling Green State University Magazine Reform Judaism Magazine
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles TVGuide.com
Los Angeles Downtown News Yale Alumni Magazine
Staff Writer
The Blade, Toledo, Ohio (1998-2010)
Circulation 118,000 daily, 144,000 Sunday
• Columnist (2008-2010)
Authored “Random Samples”, a bi-weekly Features column using pop culture and quirky local
people and events to search for more universal truths.
• Features general assignment reporter (2004-2010)
Reported on a wide range of pop culture, lifestyle, arts and entertainment issues, and wrote
restaurant reviews. Produced video and posted to Twitter.
• Higher education reporter (2000-2004)
• Suburban bureau reporter (1999-2000)
• Night police reporter (1998-1999)
Other contributions have included book reviews, travel articles, sports stories, and general interest/
opinion columns. Addressed groups as part of Blade speakers bureau.
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Awards — Best Children’s Issues Reporting
Press Club of Cleveland/Ohio Excellence in Journalism — 2nd Place, General Features
Association for Women in Communications, Toledo chapter — Crystal Award
Association for Women in Communications, Toledo chapter — Crystal Award
Press Club of Cleveland/Ohio Excellence in Journalism — 2nd Place, General Features
Association for Women in Communications, Toledo chapter— Merit Award
Association for Women in Communications, Toledo chapter— Merit Award
Association for Women in Communications, Toledo chapter — Crystal Award
John Glenn’s Return to Space (1999), team coverage
Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Awards — Best Medical/Science Reporting
Skills Final Cut, iMovie, SoundSlides, iWeb, Garage Band, WavePad audio editing
Professional Los Angeles Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists, Yale Alumni Journalism
Groups Association
Education Yale University, New Haven, Conn. — B.A., English, May 1998
Editor-in-chief of The Yale Herald
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
