Award-winning journalist working at the intersection of strategy and storytelling

I am passionate about experimenting with new formats, surprising audiences across platforms, building workflows to scale innovative storytelling and deepening reader engagement.

Currently, I am Senior Projects Editor leading audience strategy and cross-platform storytelling for The Washington Post's most ambitious reporting and investigations. I lead a team of five planning and projects editors who oversee large, cross-functional teams for planned news events, enterprise reporting, major projects, investigations and complex lines of coverage. My team engages from inception through launch — developing coverage and promotion plans, facilitating collaboration across departments, instilling audience insights throughout the coverage lifecycle and identifying opportunities for innovation and experimentation.

I have experience leading teams and editing across a range of formats including podcasts; immersive visual projects; data-driven reporting; documentaries; and visual investigations. And additionally, I coordinate with cross-company stakeholders and external partners as well as lead analytically driven after-action reviews, documenting traffic insights, audience insights and lessons learned to scale best practices and inform future projects.

I joined The Washington Post in 2016 as a newsroom designer focused on developing reader experiences for web, print and distributed platforms. While on the design team, I helped to scale our custom, off-platform storytelling in Apple News and was part of a cross-departmental team that led research, front-end development and documentation for a React-based custom storytelling template to support immersive digital projects.

I have led and contributed to projects recognized by the Pulitzer Prizes, George Polk Awards, News and Documentary Emmys, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Online Journalism Awards, Overseas Press Club, White House Correspondents’ Association, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and Society for News Design. I was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for the 2°C: Beyond the Limit series on climate change, the team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for public service journalism for an investigation into tracing the surge of fentanyl from Mexican labs to U.S. streets and the team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for public service journalism for an investigation of the opioid epidemic. And I was an editor on the Washington Post team that shared the Polk Award for Technology Reporting with the Forbidden Stories Network and Guardian U.S. for "The Pegasus Project," a collaborative investigation into military-grade spyware.

Prior to joining The Washington Post, I was a designer for The Arizona Republic in Gannett’s Design Studio and the editor of SND.org.

I graduated from UCLA, where I studied communications and geography and led The Daily Bruin’s quarterly lifestyle magazine. I currently live in Washington, D.C. with my husband and two dogs, after spending more than 20 years in the Western U.S. in California, Arizona, Washington and Colorado.