HIGHLIGHTS

Film and Television

Was accepted into Columbia College Chicago with the merit-based Graduate Award and subsequently awarded the 2020 Summer Intership Award and the Dwight W. Follett Fellowship

Began working as a Production Assistant on one of NBC’s top shows, “Chicago P.D.”, and a Research and Archival Intern during her first semester of graduate school

Was named a finalist in a regional pitch competition

Leveraged her network and experience into roles as Production Manager, Line Producer, and Creative Development Intern the summer after her first year

Journalism and Social Media Management

Managed social media pages with as many as 900,000 followers

Graduated from Florida A&M Multimedia Short Course, a rigorous program sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists, and was a recipient of the Chips Quinn Scholarship by the Freedom Forum Institute

Covered the 2016 presidential election, rounding out poll results and statistics with multimedia pieces about visually impaired voters, an enthusiastic Trump supporter and the complexities of casting a vote in the Haitian-American community

Drove an initiative that resulted in a 200 percent increase in page views in one year

Initiated a digital focus on younger audiences with “From the Mouths of Millennials,” a multi-part newsroom-wide presentation with extensive research about millennials’ media trends and best practices for effective social media engagement

Broke the story about a mass shooting involving teenager at a nightclub

Proposed expanded coverage of the LGBT community, then spent weeks interviewing transgender advocates, religious leaders and loved ones of a couple rethinking their decades-long marriage after a spouse came out as a transgender woman

Directed, edited and starred in a three-part video project exploring an iconic food institution