Hi there! Thanks for stopping by my page, I appreciate your time. First things first, if you’d like to reach me:

Second, just a little bit about me: I’m a multimedia storytelling enthusiast with a focus on audio. I love a good digital interactive, and feel most at home working a waveform or a spreadsheet.

I graduated The New School in 2017. My favorite class was called, Sound and Power for which I made a disorienting cut-up of the Barney theme song to demonstrate its use as a device of torture. Fortunately, that audio has been lost. My final in that class was an exploration of the “acoustemology” of audio journalism and storytelling from the Golden Age of radio through today. My other coursework included political science, journalism, writing and the occasional music class.

A month after graduating, I got a job as a local reporter at my hometown paper, The Long Island Herald. In my first six months there, I wrote pieces that earned me several statewide awards and the Long Island Press Club’s Cub Reporter of the Year. I also earned a promotion to assistant editor.

For a year after that, I honed my reporting chops. I uncovered corruption at a local volunteer ambulance corps, mastered the art of the government meeting write-up, created my first interactive web element as part of an award winning series on gun violence, managed the paper’s weekly production, including edits, photography and layout, and got to talk to EPA scientists about a stream of poop water emanating from an affluent area that had kept a local public beach closed for a decade.

I left the Herald in November 2018 to pursue freelance work at WNYC. I started as a call screener on the pre-midterm election call in show, America On The Line, and soon moved on to booking and prepping interviews for The Brian Lehrer Show. In March 2019, when I added The Takeaway to my repertoire, I started working at the station more days than not, learning the pace and process of daily news production, and honing my scripting skills. During that time, the show’s Microsoft Access database of guests, which was used to generate the show’s daily documents, broke. One of my proudest accomplishments was designing a new highly dynamic custom database in Google Sheets that has been in use since then.

After working permalance as one of the lead producers on the Brian Lehrer Show’s daily “Impeachment” podcast during the December 2019 impeachment trial of President Trump, I oversaw the pivot to a live-to-tape daily podcast geared toward a national political audience, which remains my responsibility to date. This experiment has grown our audience by between 30 and 50% over time, depending on the political climate.

With the specific challenges of impeachment coverage gone, I began to work as a segment producer for All Of It, and learned what it means to straddle two very different daily broadcast shows, with two very different workflows and mandates. A few months later, those would become remote workflows, as the pandemic sent us all home. During that time, I maintained my WNYC talkshows portfolio, and began moonlighting for Gothamist, producing their daily and weekly COVID-19 data visualizations. Being able to provide our audience with situational awareness in an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty gave me a sense of purpose that got me thorough that very difficult time.

Toward the end of 2020, the Live Radio team had begun to think about a couple of projects aimed at commemorating a year of pandemic, of George Floyd protests, and of the political divides manifest in the 2020 election. We settled on an audience participation “Reading Their Names” memorial for our NYC neighbors who died of COVID-19, which aired for 90 minutes on the Brian Lehrer Show. This task would have been a logistical nightmare, but I made it possible with some creative problem solving and light coding (a Python script that worked with both our SMS Inbox service API and the Google sheets API to automatically track, process and organize sign-ups and submissions). We also produced a time capsule, where listeners were invited to share their voice memories and photos. Getting to be the one to stash those artifacts near our transmitter, at the top of the Empire State Building, was the honor of a lifetime. Those of us who are still around in 2030 will open it back up to reflect on what a year that was.

My role at WNYC was formalized when I was hired full time in August 2021 as Assistant Producer for Live Radio, and promoted to Associate Producer in April 2022. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a number of exciting projects, including the national mental health call-in program Hold On, with Death Sex and Money’s Anna Sale, and the New York City pre-midterm local politics series The People’s Guide To Power, with Brigid Bergin.

And lest you think I’m a workaholic (I am.) I’m also a musician, a fiction writer, an audiobook narrator, houseplant enthusiast, and a builder of strange antennas, including a radio telescope.