How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email or Instagram.
What's your favorite social network?
Instagram.
Who do you wish followed you?
Dolly Parton.
Why did you become a journalist?
I was terrible at math.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Understand and accept that most writers have to work more than one job to stay afloat financially, and that this doesn't make you less than.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That people outside the community are better able to report on it than those within it.