Résumé

Jour­nal­ism Experience

Oak­land North | Busi­ness Reporter—Pro­duce news sto­ries and fea­tures on Oak­land econ­omy, devel­op­ment and trans­porta­tion for hyper­local news web­site [August 2011—present]

Sci­ence Today | Assis­tant Pro­ducer—Pro­duced 75 episodes for nation­ally syn­di­cated CBS radio pro­gram, includ­ing inter­view­ing, writ­ing scripts and edit­ing audio [Feb­ru­ary 2011—August 2011]

Hyphen mag­a­zine | Assis­tant Fea­tures Edi­tor (For­merly Blogger)—Edit fea­tures and other print con­tent; Pro­duce web  and print con­tent, includ­ing book reviews and blog posts on social issues rel­e­vant to Asian Amer­i­can com­mu­nity; Front of book edit­ing [Feb­ru­ary 2009—present]

Ms. mag­a­zine | Con­tribut­ing Writer (For­merly Edi­to­r­ial Intern)—Periodically pro­duce reported print fea­tures and web con­tent on issues of gen­der equal­ity. As intern: Per­formed research and fact check­ing; Assisted in devel­op­ment and man­age­ment of blog includ­ing design, edit­ing and con­tent cre­ation; Pre­pared front of book con­tent; Screened books and movies for review. [Jan­u­ary 2010—present]

The Media Con­sor­tium | Immi­gra­tion Blog­ger—Pro­duce weekly, syn­di­cated immi­gra­tion news sum­maries, high­light­ing and con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing pro­gres­sive media dis­course. [July 2010—May 2011]

The Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress | Staff Writer—Wrote fea­tures and daily blog con­tent on immi­gra­tion pol­i­tics and pol­icy. [August 2010—February 2011]

The State Press & State Press Mag­a­zine | Fea­ture Writer, Opin­ion Colum­nist—Wrote fea­tures for student-run mag­a­zine and weekly opin­ion col­umn for student-run news­pa­per [August 2005-November 2009]

Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity | Fea­ture Writer—Wrote human inter­est fea­tures for uni­ver­sity web­sites and newslet­ter [January—August 2008]

Deci­sion Sci­ences Jour­nal | Edi­to­r­ial Assis­tant—Monitored review process and man­aged flow of all man­u­scripts through sub­mis­sion sys­tem; Pro­vided admin­is­tra­tive sup­port to and facil­i­tated blind com­mu­ni­ca­tion between authors, review­ers and asso­ciate edi­tors [Novem­ber 2006—January 2008]

Jew­ish News of Greater Phoenix | Edi­to­r­ial Intern — Report­ing, newswrit­ing, copy­edit­ing [Sum­mer 2005]

Edu­ca­tion

Mas­ter of Jour­nal­ism | 2013 (Expected)
U.C. Berke­ley, Grad­u­ate School of Journalism

Bach­e­lor of Arts in English | 2009
Minor in Women & Gen­der Stud­ies
Ari­zona State University

Awards & Grants

  • Busi­ness grant from Edson Stu­dent Entre­pre­neur Ini­tia­tive | April 2008
  • “Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment and Con­tri­bu­tion” Award from ASU Com­mis­sion on the Sta­tus of Women | May 2008
  • “Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment and Con­tri­bu­tion” Award from  ASU Com­mis­sion on the Sta­tus of Women | May 2007
  • Jules Ana­tole Cre­ative Writ­ing Award | May 2005

Speak­ing | Interviews

View LinkedIn Profile.