Areas of Expertise
Professional Skills
Canadian Press Style, research, fact-checking, interviewing, collaboration, time management, source outreach, professional communication
Technical Skills
Photojournalism, audiovisual production, Microsoft Office, Excel & Google Sheets (data cleaning, pivot tables), Datawrapper, Knight Lab, Shorthand, WordPress, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, InDesign, Illustrator, & Express)
Education
Bachelor of Communications, Mount Royal University
Journalism & Digital Media | Sept. 2022 - June 2026
Minor in Sociology.
Average GPA of 3.89.
Awarded President’s Honour Roll for the 2022 - 2023 academic year by maintaining a GPA above 3.75 while earning more than 24 credit hours.
Awarded Dean’s Honour Roll for almost every semester by maintaining a GPA above 3.5.
Work Experience
Freelance Journalist
LiveWire Calgary | Oct. 2025 - Present
Completed two to three articles each week with a focus on hyper-local features and the occasional general assignment story.
- Independently pitched stories that tapped into the issues, trends, and triumphs shaping Calgary.
- Prioritized projects based on topic relevance to ensure the most pressing stories reached publication first.
- Personally sought and established source and public relations contacts.
- Captured or outsourced artwork for all articles, including photographing people and events or finding copyright-free images.
- Single-handedly reported the tentative results for all 14 ward councillor candidates using preliminary vote counts for Calgary's civic election on Oct. 20, 2025.
Features Editor
The Reflector | Aug. 2025 - April 2025
Managed a section as one of eight student editors employed at MRU’s independent print and online news outlet.
- Filled the three to five pages allocated to my section for each bi-weekly print issue.
- Edited articles in accordance with The Canadian Press Stylebook (19th ed).
- Fact-checked article content to ensure that only verified information went to publication.
- Pitched and approved story pitches from students, including those outside of the journalism program.
- Coached contributors from diverse disciplines on interviewing sources, writing for news, and industry ethics.
- Assisted in proofreading up to 20 articles before sending the paper to print.
Multimedia Practicum Reporter
LiveWire Calgary | May 2025 - Aug. 2025
Covered municipal politics, breaking news, features, and hyper-local stories as a daily online reporter.
- Completed approximately one 500-1,000-word story per day, each with a minimum of two sources.
- Pitched and took on daily assignments from editors.
- Filed articles on WordPress, employing SEO tools to boost readership.
- Used Datawrapper to graph and in-text embed maps using quantitative statistics.
- Supplied article artwork for each story, either through personally photographing sources and events or uploading copyright-free images.
- Effectively communicated with PR persons to obtain source interviews and information.
- Wrote live while sitting in on city council meetings, updating as new information arose.
- Attended media scrums alongside industry professionals.
Staff Writer
The Reflector | Oct. 2024 - Aug. 2025
Published print and online articles as assigned by MRU's team of student editors.
- Contributed to the Features, News, and Arts & Entertainment beats.
- Completed 500-1,000-word articles on time or earlier than the allocated deadline.
- Conducted thorough research to support discussions about social justice topics, trends, and current events.
- Pitched stories to be vetted and worked alongside editors during the revision process. Multimedia Reporter
Calgary Journal | May 2023 - April 2026
Published written articles and multimedia stories crafted under the supervision of MRU's Journalism and Digital Media professors while working to complete my undergraduate degree.
- Developed story pitches to be vetted by overseeing professors.
- Connected with and interviewed sources.
- Accurately transcribed interview audio for both in-text referencing as well as VO and TOV sequence writing.
- Videographed and photographed events, attaching these to written pieces after editing them on Adobe's Lightroom and Premiere Pro software.