What was your first job as a journalist?
Documentary Journalist for Hope St Productions, finding stories of hope and survival 10 years after the Boxing Day Tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To provide concise insight and analysis of new developments, showing how an individual story is part of a bigger pattern.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email please.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
WordPress, Descript, Adobe Audition, G-suite and Microsoft suite, Zoom, FOI.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Why did you become a journalist?
I'm curious about everything. I also believe information is power, and it should be easily available for the public.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
My piece for World Politics Review on how Brazil's austerity measures and cuts to higher education will harm social mobility.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Mornings!
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
"I am looking to write about the sharing economy and I think you might be the person to help me." No further details.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
At an event getting tape or interviewing someone.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
HuffPo's Highline, High Country News, and USA Today's weekly investigations newsletter, Local Matters.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That a story's subjects can and should be sorted into black-and-white, good-or-bad roles.
