Where I Started
I became a journalist by accident, sort of…
In 2020, many young people in my hometown of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, took to the streets and began organizing to reconcile our small southern town’s past. I ended up as communications lead for a grassroots group working on racial and economic justice in Eastern North Carolina. I thought I was just doing activism. Turns out I was falling in love with stories, one conversation at a time.
Somewhere between reading local newspapers and my shared NPR habit with my dad, it clicked: I wanted to be a professional question-asker!
Where I Am Now
This later took me to journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, then to the D.C. Superior Court, where I spent my final semester reporting daily on the courts for D.C. Witness — the closest I've come to journalism at full speed, and the reason I know I can keep up.
These days, I work in arts administration at PlayMakers Repertory Company, a professional theater housed at my alma mater’s Department of Dramatic Art. Different room, same instincts: listen closely, ask good questions, help people's work reach an audience.
I'm a first-generation college grad who's found every door on this path myself, and I'm still looking for a newsroom to bring that same energy to.
