Some highlights.

AWARDS

Best of the Net Nomination, “Teeth,” Glint Literary Journal, 2021

Society of Professional Journalists, NW Excellence in Journalism, Runner Up in Soft Feature Reporting for “The Unlikely Style Icon Teaching Older Women to be Fashion Rebels,” 2019

Society of Professional Journalists, NW Excellence in Journalism, Runner Up in Soft Feature Reporting for “What Is Barbershop Therapy?” 2018

Best of 2018, “Woven: As They Walk Through the Door,” Entropy

Gold National Council for Marketing and Public Relations Paragon award for Promotional Video Long-Form (profile of student KaShawna Bell), 2020

Gold National Council for Marketing and Public Relations Paragon award for “Letters from the Heart.,” a 2017 PCC Foundation Annual Report

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Conferences

Parenting Journalist Conference, March 2021

Solutions Journalism Network Summit, 2017, 2018, 2019

Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop 2012, 2013, 2014 (workshop leaders: Antonya Nelson, Jim Shepard, and Vanessa Veselka)

Courses + workshops

Ongoing short story manuscript consultation (Margaret Malone), 2020-Present

Pinewood Table weekly critique group, 2016-Present (Joanna Rose and Stevan Allred)

Writing Parenthood, NYU, April - June 2020 (Estelle Erasmus)

Deep Dive Into Dialogue and Dialect, Writing the Other, July 2020 (K. Tempest Bradford)

Attic Atheneum in fiction, 2012-2013 (Greg Robillard and Merridawn Duckler)

Creative nonfiction weekly critique group, 2007-2010 (Candy Schulman)

Classes + webinars

“Is that really journalism?” Journalism & Advocacy, November 2021 (Anita Varma)

The Art of Structuring a Long-form Narrative, October 2021 (Tim Herrera)

Reframing Reporting with a Solidarity Approach, April 2020 (Anita Varma)

Fractured Fiction as Play, April 2020 (Amber Sparks)

Bullet Points, April 2020 (Julia Brown)

Writing Truth, 2015 (Dorothy Allison)

Trainings

Solutions Journalism Network Tom Wolfe mentorship program mentor/mentee, 2019

Complicating the Narrative, 2018 and 2020

Compassionate Listening, 2016

Speaking

Guest speaker in Solutions Journalism class at The New School, September 2021

Guest on Google Tell Me More podcast for “19 Volunteers Sharing an iPhone are Trying to Support Incarcerated People Through COVID-19,” 2020