Freelance Writer, Los Angeles Times, Canoe & Kayak Magazine,
and ANG Newspapers, 2003-2007

Write both short and feature-length outdoors, sports and travel articles for Canoe & Kayak, ANG Newspapers, and the Los Angeles Times. Subjects so far include abalone diving, extreme ocean kayaking, South American travel, 83-year-old ice hockey players, tree-sitting, flight lessons, and the world championships of elk bugling.

Intern, California Magazine, Summer 2007

Wrote a feature story, two front-of-the-book research news stories, and several inside sidebars. Researched and wrote two-page graphic to accompany cover story. Fact-checked, copy-edited and wrote online Web shorts.

Intern, East Bay Express, January 2007-June 2007

Wrote news stories and features for East Bay alt-weekly. Posted regular blog items.

Copy Editor, San Mateo County Times, 2002-2004

Checked news, feature and business articles for grammar, spelling, libel and factual errors. Wrote headlines and designed news-section pages, including the front page. Responsible for final checks before publication. In overtime, wrote freelance stories for sports, news and living sections of the Times' corporate owner, ANG Newspapers.

Editor in Chief, UCSB Daily Nexus, 2001-2002

Edited news and opinion stories before publication, wrote 1-2 stories per week, managed staff of 40 editors and worked with annual budget.

Intern Reporter, North County Times, Summer 2001

Wrote daily stories and news briefs, including seven A-1 stories in three months.

2004 Max Karant Award

National Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association annual award for excellence in aviation coverage

2000-2001 California Intercollegiate Press Awards

First place for newswriting, 2000

Second place for feature writing and third place for human-interest story, 2001

Speak Spanish

Comfortable with audio recording and editing for radio or Web

Comfortable with word processing programs, HTML, Moveable Type, LotusNotes, Quark, InDesign, ProTools, Soundslides, Harris Newsmaker, and some Java

University of California Graduate School of Journalism

M.J. expected June 2008

University of California Santa Barbara

B.A. in Political Science, June 2002

3.77 GPA

Seven time Dean's Honors List

Graduated with distinction for winning $3,000 in grants, researching and then writing a 100-page senior undergraduate honors thesis on the effects of the Internet on how people read and understand the news

Travel, hiking and backpacking, kayaking, surfing, soccer, ice hockey