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WORK EXPERIENCE
Freelance Journalist, July 2008 - present
- E/The Environmental Magazine, piece to be published in May/June 2009 issue
- The New York Times, Stringer, Sept. 2008 - present
- The Huffington Post, Blogger, July 2008
Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting
University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography
Diversity Fellow, Sept. 2007 – June 2008
*Conceived and reported climate change series exploring impact on New York state and wrote live on topics ranging from toxics to energy at the Times Union, a 90,000-circulation daily newspaper in Albany, N.Y.
Norwich Bulletin and NorwichBulletin.com, Norwich, CT
Daily newspaper covering eastern Conn.; circ. 27,000, Sun. 40,000
Municipal Reporter, Nov. 2005 – Aug. 2007
*Continuously broke news on small town’s political upheaval as it also investigated the arson of its uninsured town hall; reported on education, elections, economic development, land use and environment, beating my competition regularly; posted Web updates several times a day for breaking news; solo reporter for weekly early-morning shift
University Business, Norwalk, CT
Associate Editor, Feb. 2005 – Nov. 2005
Monthly B2B magazine covering higher education; circ. 45,000
*Created first house style book for online operations; helped create a more dynamic daily e-newsletter by sourcing wider for articles; wrote and edited
The Herald, New Britain, CT
Cops/Courts Reporter, Oct. 2004 – Feb. 2005
Daily newspaper; circ. 16,323, Sun. 32,754
* Covered crime, Superior Court proceedings, elections
OTHER EXPERIENCE
* Grade the News - Stanford University, Volunteer, June 2004 - Aug. 2004
* Mother Jones, Editorial Intern, Feb. 2004 - June 2004
* San Francisco District 1 Supervisor’s Office, Volunteer, Nov. 2003 - Dec. 2003
* EWWoman.com (now East West Magazine), Editorial Intern, June 2003 - August 2003
* MSNBC - Buchanan and Press, Dayside Newsroom Intern, Sept. 2002 - Nov. 2002
* The MounTimes (bi-weekly college newspaper), Feature News Editor/Columnist/Reporter, Sept. 2001 - May 2002
AFFILIATIONS
* Asian American Journalists Association, Society of Environmental Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists, South Asian Journalists Association, member of SEJ First Amendment Task Force
COMPUTER SKILLS
* Photography, Macintosh, Windows, Visual Basic, HTML, Pico, Word, Excel, Outlook, Adobe InCopy, LexisNexis, 64/wpm
EDUCATION
College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, NY
BA in Communication, May 2003
Columbia University, New York, NY
Visiting Student, Fall 2002
OTHER TRAINING
Workshop: Complementary Photojournalism, taught by J. Adam Huggins, Preston Merchant and Annie Tritt, June 2008
Environmental Justice Workshop, Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, September 2007
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