I’m a journalist, producer, and educator based in Appalachia. I’m currently working as a producer on a forthcoming documentary with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, Elaine McMillion Sheldon. I was recently awarded the Galloway Fellowship for Reporting in Appalachia for a project focusing on child welfare issues and foster care in West Virginia.

In 2019, I worked closely with Elaine, and filmmaker Curren Sheldon, and as an associate producer, field producer, researcher, assistant editor, and sound recordist for films commissioned by Netflix, Sesame Street, and Frontline.

Before that I lived in southern West Virginia, along the Kentucky border, as one of three fellows with Report for America. Tattoos and all, I was featured in The New York Times, and I was named a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Before moving back to West Virginia, I spent six years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where I covered education, local government. and crime.

In 2011, I earned a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University, and I’m a proud graduate Fairmont State University, where I’m also an adjunct professor.