ABOUT ME

I am an award-winning broadcast journalist who relishes every role that brings engaging and excellent journalism to an audience.  Over the past 15 years I have been a reporter, producer, editor, co-creator and senior producer. I have reported award-winning audio stories and launched three successful podcasts and one award-winning, daily, hour long news magazine show on public radio.  

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I have led teams of producers as an editorial and technical director. I approve story pitches, edit scripts and recorded interviews. I book guests, plan web and social media content, work closely with a team and dream up new ways to engage a broader and more diverse audience on multiple channels. I also guest host. 

 

As a freelance reporter and producer from 2007 to 2020, I produced work for American Public Media, National Native News, Minnesota Public Radio News, Chicago Public Media, the AMPERS network of tribal and community radio stations and community storytelling projects. 

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My work has earned awards from the national Public Media Journalists Association, the regional Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association and the state Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists.

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I have a Bachelors and Masters degree. Before journalism, I was a junior high school science teacher, an aid to a Chicago Alderman, a community organizer and a non-profit manager. That experience has given me a broad understanding of people, power and community dynamics that I use everyday in journalism.

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Finally, I love to laugh - loud.

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