Career Highlights

● Broke the news of the loss of planned federal funding for two Colorado transit projects

● Hearst Journalism Awards 2026 sports writing winner, 2024 national writing championship finalist

● Inagural winner of the Dan Jenkins Medal for excellence in student sports writing

● Founded three student journalism organizations and served in editor roles for four others

References

Dana Coffield, Executive Editor, The Colorado Sun (303) 808-5518 | dana@coloradosun.com

Maria Reeve, Managing Editor, The Minnesota Star Tribune maria.reeve@startribune.com

Kourtney Geers, Editor-in-Chief, Denver Business Journal (303) 803-9227 | kgeers@bizjournals.com

Experience

Denver Business Journal

Dow Jones News Fund Intern June 2026-August 2026

● Scrape records from county, state and federal regulators to break news on Colorado companies

● Broke the news of a major delay in the opening date for a Denver sports stadium

● File three to five stories per week, working on six to ten assignments at any given moment

The Colorado Sun

Intern & Freelance Reporter October 2024-Present

● Sole reporter at the state level to cover Colorado’s most competitive legislative race in 2024

● Spent four days on location leading coverage of the fifth-largest wildifre in Colorado history

● Wrote and shot photos for stories on state politics, sports, business and the Denver city council

Minnesota Star Tribune

Features Intern June–August 2025

● Filed a mix of trending and feature stories for the metro, food, music and Minnesota Life desks

● Filmed and edited vertical video that consistently broke 100k views on Instagram and TikTok

Mountain Time Magazine

Editor-in-Chief January 2025-May 2026

● Founded a student-run outdoors and culture magazine that publishes twice a year

● Supervised seven managers and a staff of 19 writers, eight designers and five photographers

● Managed a budget, coordinated with printer and used SEO to grow website traffic

Estes Valley Voice 

Statehouse Reporting Intern December 2024-May 2025

● Covered the Colorado state government with a hyper-local angle for a rural tourist town

● Broke news with a team of colleagues on the DOGE layoffs at Rocky Mountain National Park

Sko Buff Sports

Investigative Reporter January 2025-May 2026

● Filed public records requests, developed sources and built data sets to cover CU Athletics

● Story on the House v. NCAA settlement’s impact on the school published in Colorado Public Radio

CU Independent

Managing Editor August 2024-January 2025

● Oversaw news and sports coverage for a student newspaper, editing five to 10 stories per week

● Managed a WordPress website, using SEO and Instagram analytics to increase readership