About Me
I’m a multimedia and online producer for The Denver Post. I work mainly with the Post’s online team to develop and maintain its social media initiatives; redesign and oversee its blogs; shoot, edit and produce video; write breaking news; and, from time to time, photograph.
I joined the Post in June 2009 as a summer Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Multimedia intern before my editors extended me through December 2009. I was hired full-time at the start of the New Year and then put in charge of leading a task force of editorial, advertising, marketing and circulation staff to develop a social media strategy for the newspaper — part of an effort to grow our audience and engagement online, and, ultimately, generate additional revenue through increased traffic and advertising opportunities.
Background
I was born in New Orleans and lived there until I was five, before moving to Pennington, N.J., in 1992. I graduated from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va., in December 2009. There, I served as the online editor of The Collegian — the student newspaper — during the 2008-09 academic year, which involved developing and implementing the newspaper’s Web site redesign the summer before my senior year, the final product of which won best overall college newspaper Web site from the Student Society for News Design.
I worked as The Collegian’s news editor from 2007-08, blogged for The New York Times during the 2008 presidential and vice presidential debates and interned as a staff writer for The Associated Press in Richmond, The Pennington (N.J.) Post, and Stateline.org, a daily news Web site dedicated to tracking, analyzing and explaining trends in state government and politics.
At Richmond, I competed in varsity cross country and track and field and played in the university’s wind ensemble. I graduated with a bachelor of science in biology, a bachelor of arts in journalism and a minor in French.