Journalist | Data Visualist | Designer | Coder
Experience
Graphics and data journalist, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles | May 2014 – present
Pitch, report and produce daily and long-term graphics, maps and other data visualizations for print and online.
Part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting on the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack.
Deputy social media and news desk editor, GlobalPost
Boston | May 2013 – May 2014
Pitched, designed and produced more than a dozen GlobalPost reporting projects.
Assisted in managing daily social and wire content.
Trained more than 15 correspondents and writers with digital reporting skills through training workshops and written guidelines.
Digital news producer, GlobalPost
Boston | Feb. 2012 – April 2013
Key creative designer having produced more than 40 project designs for in-depth news series.
Assisted in managing daily social and wire content.
Worked with our social media desk including monitoring and evaluating community engagement, implementing social media reporting tools and best-practice guidelines.
Breaking news producer, GlobalPost
Seattle | Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2012
Wrote and produced international and national breaking news stories based on daily news coverage needs.
Skills
Visualization and design
Data analysis
Mapping
Development
Education
Whitworth University
Spokane, Wash. | 2011
B.A. Journalism and Mass Communication
Visual Communication minor
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia | 2010
Media Studies (radio concentration)
Awards
California Journalism Awards
2018
Informational Graphic category
L.A. Press Club
2017
Local Political/Government Reporting, 3rd place
SND
2016
Award of Excellence in Information Graphics
Award of Excellence in Features
2015
Silver Medal in Information Graphics
Pulitzer Prize
2015
Breaking News Reporting, staff
Malofiej
2015
Bronze in Breaking News
Bronze in Features
Achievements
Executive Leadership Program
2018
Graduate of the Asian American Journalists Association’s ELP program dedicated to train the next generation of newsroom leaders and managers.
Best American Infographics
2015
The evolution of California's drought was selected and published in the the “Best American Infographics”
Voices
2011
Selected for the Asian American Journalists Association’s annual student journalism program.