about me
I’m a senior studying at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University through the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program. I am pursuing a dual degree, a Media and Journalism major through the Hussman School at UNC and an International Comparative Studies major with a Latin America Focus at Duke, and a minor in history.
I am interested in storytelling, language, literary theory and history. In journalism, this manifests in investigative work and a strong focus on systems– ranging from housing to administrators UNC– and those impacted by them. I am interested in these themes, specifically as they relate to social justice, in other fields as well although most of my experience thus far is in the journalism world.
I currently serve as the Special Projects Managing Editor for The Daily Tar Heel. I have been a part of the newsroom since my Fall semester Freshman year, working on the University Desk. Right now I run a small team of Special Projects writers, focusing on investigative and long-term reporting projects. We report on a variety of topics, with an emphasis on accountability and complex research.
Last summer I worked at The Loisaida Center, a non-profit organization based in New York City’s Lower East Side, helping build an archive and working on research for my senior honors thesis. I am currently working on that thesis through my Duke major, and expect to publish it in the Spring semester.
In September of 2023, I volunteered as a reporter for The Action Lab and Defend Democracy Brazil, and attended their week-long learning delegation to collect interviews and take notes for the report about the trip, which I co-authored in November. Two summers ago I wrote for The Tampa Bay Times as one of their Metro Interns. My beat was local communities and politics; I covered various communities and spaces within Tampa, and tried to use my work to zoom in and out. I was also a part of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Student Project, attending their annual conference in Miami and working with mentors to publish work on their website, The Latino Reporter.
