Selected Articles & Coverage
Highlighted Accolades (full awards & honors list available in CV)
2022 Illinois College Press Association (ICPA) First Place Reporter
2021 Michigan Journalist of the Year, Journalism Education Association (press release)
2020 Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Scholar (press release)
2019 National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) Portfolio of the Year Winner (press release)
Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold & Silver (x2) Crown Awardee
2021-2022
The Fourteen Lost Clinics: New ballots initiative seeks to expand mental health service accessibility for Southeast Chicago communities, reinforcing non-police crisis response model (The Chicago Maroon, September 2022)
Welcome Home(r): As incoming Odyssey Scholars and FGLI students embark on their journey at UChicago, a low-income student offers advice, guidance, and a few choice words of wisdom (The Chicago Maroon, September 2022)
The Sum of Everything Left Unfinished (The Chicago Maroon, May 2022)
Community Organizes Fundraiser to Support John Kropke, A “Cornerstone of UChicago Football” (The Chicago Maroon, April 2022)
Mask On or Off, Respect is Key: As masks become optional on campus and individuals decide whether they’ll continue to wear them, we must reject the urge to moralize and instead treat everyone’s decision with respect (The Chicago Maroon, March 2022)
Distance Does Damage: To truly combat environmental and racial injustice, the University needs to put the power in the hands of the South Side (The Chicago Maroon, February 2022)
Honey, I Vaxxed The Kids: The limits of child autonomy within the COVID-19 pandemic (PULSE, Autumn 2021)
Bona-FIDE Success: UChicago Chess Club Looks Ahead to Promising Competition Season (The Chicago Maroon, November 2021) - Illinois College Press Association First Place in Sports News
2020-2021
“We’re not maniacs”: South students speak on stigmatized mental health disorders (The Tower, December 2020)
Protecting students as F2F learning looms: Custodians take on heavy workload in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic (The Tower, November 2020)
Sterling Heights T-shirt company doubled its sewing to help during coronavirus (Detroit Free Press, July 2020) - Supported by the Detroit Free Press Summer Apprentice Program
A new normal: Coronavirus cancellations’ cost to co-curriculars (The Tower, March 2020) - National Scholastic Press Association Recognition for Outstanding Coronavirus Coverage Finalist & We Are All Storytellers Competition Finalist for Print News/Feature Package on COVID-19 Impact
2019-2020
Are you two twins? How LGBT students navigate Valentine’s Day (The Tower, February 2019) - Michigan Interscholastic Press Association Second Place in Diversity Coverage
Through the haze: Medical marijuana sows seeds of both recovery and tension (The Tower, 2019) - Michigan Interscholastic Press Association Second Place in Environmental, Health or Science Coverage