(my favorite episodes are marked with a **)

How To Do Everything (NPR)

I led production of How To from inception to finale: building showboards and calendars to keep our schedule on track, pitching segments, conducting research, booking all guests and coordinating interview setup, directing hosts in-studio, cutting segments with Adobe Audition, scoring episodes, pulling archival episodes, producing trailers and promos, writing episode copy, creating website graphics, uploading each episode and pushing the publish button. I also wrote copy for marketing, social media and public relations teams across NPR to publicize the show to the world. I even got on the mic a few times! Author page here.

StoriesWithout End (WBEZ)

On Stories Without End, I helped host Natalie Moore book and set up interviews, conduct research, pull archival footage, record field tape, build an overarching series narrative and storyboard each episode. I also provided edits and feedback. The two of us spoke at The Arts Club Of Chicago about the series in early 2025.

Making (WBEZ)

I led production on WBEZ’s Making podcast, pitching episode subjects, researching their background, and chasing important characters in their lives as guests for the show. I set up interviews and scripted questions for host Brandon Pope. I then crafted the entire episode, weaving archival tape, narration, occasional field tape and guest interviews into a compelling narrative arc. I tracked the show with my host, cut the mix with Adobe Audition, added scoring, integrated feedback, coordinated graphics with our design team, created promos and published the show online. It was the first show I single-handedly led production on, from pitching to publishing.

Art of Power (WBEZ)

I started at WBEZ in early 2021 as the founding intern on Art of Power, a leadership interview show hosted by Aarti Shahani. By fall, I was hired as a full-time podcast producer. I pitched original guest ideas, did all the bookings and interview set-up, and sent publicity materials to guests to push the show out. I conducted research and gathered archival footage. I provided critical editorial feedback for show development, interview scripts and episode arcs. I also scripted, cut and scored a few episodes using Vegas.

Reset (WBEZ)

I pitched, reported and produced segments with hourly turnaround for WBEZ’s live daily news talk show Reset, which received over 25,000 daily listeners.

other work (WBEZ)

The Parole Room

I provided fact-checking and research assistance to Chicago journalists Ben Austen and Bill Healy for the Peabody-finalist book Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change, as well as its corresponding George Polk Award-winning podcast The Parole Room. I wrote weekly articles, tracked down sources on TLOxp, conducted interviews, gathered hard-to-access archival tape and filed FOIA requests. I also fact-checked the This American Life episode “This Is the Case of Henry Dee”.

APM Reports

As an intern at APM Reports, I provided fact-checking, research and editorial feedback assistance on several investigations, filing FOIAs in both English and Spanish, palming through hundreds of pages of legal documents, pulling archival footage and organizing data. Notably, I conducted an original investigation into Juul Labs, Inc., as well as assisted on Peabody Award-winning podcast In The Dark seasons two and three. Author page here.

The Daily Northwestern/Medill News Service

I got my undergraduate degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where I was a managing editor at The Daily Northwestern and conducted an investigation that changed city law. I also participated in the Medill Investigative Lab, where we traveled to the Olympic peninsula in Washington state to report on the opioid epidemic in indigenous populations. Before that, I reported with the Medill News Service as part of “Medill on the Hill,” a program where students spend three months in Washington D.C. doing congressional reporting.