C.V.
Experience
Write breaking news, quirky news, explainers and enterprise.
Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times, New Delhi, India 9/2020-12/2022
Cover daily news and enterprise from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, The Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.
Foreign Correspondent, The Associated Press, New Delhi, India 9/2018-9/2020
Wrote breaking news and enterprise. Mentored, edited and collaborated with multiformat journalists across South Asia.
Correspondent, The Associated Press, Fort Worth, Texas 3/2014-8/2018
Wrote breaking news and enterprise stories from Texas. Part of team winner of 2018 Associated Press Managing Editors award for deadline reporting on Hurricane Harvey. Part of team awarded Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for 2017 investigative series on schoolhouse sex assaults. Received 1st-place National Headliner Award for Ebola coverage in 2014. Won 1st-place AP Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Staffer of the Year Award in 2015. Received multiple in-house AP awards.
Freelance Journalist, Miami, Fla. and Buenos Aires, Argentina 4/2012-3/2014
Wrote breaking news, blogs and long form, narrative journalism for a variety of outlets, including
The New York Times, GlobalPost, BBC, Christian Science Monitor, Curbed, Reuters Television Network, World Policy Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, The Daily Beast, Forbes, iQ, and many others.
Country Director, New Narratives, Monrovia, Liberia 1/2011-10/2011
Mentored and edited seven print and broadcast female journalists on stories ranging from teen prostitution to resource extraction as in-country manager of NGO. Assisted in general elections coverage for The New York Times; covered refugee and mercenary situation in Liberia during Ivory Coast conflict. Also responsible for staffing, planning, fundraising and finances.
Freelance Journalist, Mexico, D.F. 11/2009-11/2010
Wrote for Reuters, AOL News, The Miami Herald, DailyFinance, La Voz. Covered Haiti in aftermath of January earthquake; investigated murder allegations in Jamaica during police siege; breaking news on Mexico’s drug war. Wrote Spanish-language financial news column for La Voz.
Staff Reporter, Forbes, New York, N.Y. 1/2007-9/2008
Wrote articles on marketing, entrepreneurship, investing and biotech for magazine and Forbes.com. Produced slideshows, video stories and podcasts for Forbes.com. Fact-checked biweekly for Forbes.
Copy Editor, The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla. 8/2005-11/2006
Edited news stories on the World and Local desks. Covered crime and politics in city of Opa-locka for Neighbors section. Produced and aired radio stories for WLRN-Miami Herald News. Aug. 2005-Nov. 2006
News Desk Intern, NPR, Washington, D.C. Summer 2005
Executive producer of newsmagazine show Intern Edition; liaison among 50 interns and NPR staff; oversaw all aspects of production, editing and management. Helped conceive Web site and produced 20 radio stories. Produced and edited hour-long show.
Intern, Financial Times, New York, N.Y. Spring 2003
As an undergraduate student in the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program, I wrote feature articles for the Weekend section of the U.S. edition of the FT. I was also hired by the U.S. editor to produce a daily comparative review of the top stories in the FT, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Languages: Bilingual in Spanish and English. Intermediate Hindi. Beginner Portuguese.
Multimedia: Adobe Audition, Blogger, Bloomberg, Final Cut Pro, LexisNexis, Microsoft Office, Factiva, InDesign, Quark, ProTools, Photoshop, Twitter, Instagram.
Hostile Environment Training: AKE Group. Rory Peck Trust recipient. Hereford, U.K. February 2012
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, MA. Business and Economics Journalism, New York, N.Y. May 2009
Thesis: "A Dream Deferred: Real Estate Boom to Bust on Chicago's West Side"
Bard College, B.A. Spanish., Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. May 2005
Thesis: "Reading Mexico City: A Project of Cultural Reform and Civic Consciousness"
Correspondent, The Associated Press, Fort Worth, Texas 3/2014-8/2018
Wrote breaking news and enterprise stories from Texas. Part of team winner of 2018 Associated Press Managing Editors award for deadline reporting on Hurricane Harvey. Part of team awarded Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for 2017 investigative series on schoolhouse sex assaults. Received 1st-place National Headliner Award for Ebola coverage in 2014. Won 1st-place AP Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Staffer of the Year Award in 2015. Received multiple in-house AP awards.
Freelance Journalist, Miami, Fla. and Buenos Aires, Argentina 4/2012-3/2014
Wrote breaking news, blogs and long form, narrative journalism for a variety of outlets, including
The New York Times, GlobalPost, BBC, Christian Science Monitor, Curbed, Reuters Television Network, World Policy Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, The Daily Beast, Forbes, iQ, and many others.
Country Director, New Narratives, Monrovia, Liberia 1/2011-10/2011
Mentored and edited seven print and broadcast female journalists on stories ranging from teen prostitution to resource extraction as in-country manager of NGO. Assisted in general elections coverage for The New York Times; covered refugee and mercenary situation in Liberia during Ivory Coast conflict. Also responsible for staffing, planning, fundraising and finances.
Freelance Journalist, Mexico, D.F. 11/2009-11/2010
Wrote for Reuters, AOL News, The Miami Herald, DailyFinance, La Voz. Covered Haiti in aftermath of January earthquake; investigated murder allegations in Jamaica during police siege; breaking news on Mexico’s drug war. Wrote Spanish-language financial news column for La Voz.
Staff Reporter, Forbes, New York, N.Y. 1/2007-9/2008
Wrote articles on marketing, entrepreneurship, investing and biotech for magazine and Forbes.com. Produced slideshows, video stories and podcasts for Forbes.com. Fact-checked biweekly for Forbes.
Copy Editor, The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla. 8/2005-11/2006
Edited news stories on the World and Local desks. Covered crime and politics in city of Opa-locka for Neighbors section. Produced and aired radio stories for WLRN-Miami Herald News. Aug. 2005-Nov. 2006
News Desk Intern, NPR, Washington, D.C. Summer 2005
Executive producer of newsmagazine show Intern Edition; liaison among 50 interns and NPR staff; oversaw all aspects of production, editing and management. Helped conceive Web site and produced 20 radio stories. Produced and edited hour-long show.
Intern, Financial Times, New York, N.Y. Spring 2003
As an undergraduate student in the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program, I wrote feature articles for the Weekend section of the U.S. edition of the FT. I was also hired by the U.S. editor to produce a daily comparative review of the top stories in the FT, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Co-founder, La Voz. Adviser, New Narratives.
Languages: Bilingual in Spanish and English. Intermediate Hindi. Beginner Portuguese.
Multimedia: Adobe Audition, Blogger, Bloomberg, Final Cut Pro, LexisNexis, Microsoft Office, Factiva, InDesign, Quark, ProTools, Photoshop, Twitter, Instagram.
Hostile Environment Training: AKE Group. Rory Peck Trust recipient. Hereford, U.K. February 2012
Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, MA. Business and Economics Journalism, New York, N.Y. May 2009
Thesis: "A Dream Deferred: Real Estate Boom to Bust on Chicago's West Side"
Bard College, B.A. Spanish., Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. May 2005
Thesis: "Reading Mexico City: A Project of Cultural Reform and Civic Consciousness"