I discovered my knack for journalism in high school and never looked back. Throughout college at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, I freelanced for a variety of local nonprofit outlets and worked as a staff writer for the Omaha Daily Record, a tiny daily legal newspaper, for about two years. I was also a communications intern at a university-supported startup incubator, an election night stringer for the Associated Press and the editor-in-chief of my college paper. 

I started out at The Omaha World-Herald in 2022 as a part-time night cops reporter, which turned into a full-time summer internship and then a permanent position on the general assignment desk. After a particularly brutal round of layoffs in early 2023, I took over the courts beat. In the two years I spent covering the justice system in Omaha and surrounding areas, I was particularly interested in juvenile justice issues, prison conditions and the Nebraska Supreme Court. Some of my best work included uncovering a multi-million dollar fundraising operation that deprived money from local police organizations and an in-depth profile of an Omaha family in the aftermath of a brutal double homicide. 

In 2025, I took on a new role as a reporter and audio producer at Nebraska Public Media, Nebraska's NPR affiliate, and Harvest Public Media, a collaborative network of public radio stations across the Midwest and Great Plains. My stories on federal funding cuts impacting weather balloon launches, SNAP waivers and a federal land conservation program have been aired and published by stations from Kansas to Michigan. I still cover courts, police and broader justice issues when time permits. 

When I'm not working, I'm probably reading. My favorite authors are Roberto Bolaño, José Saramago, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elena Ferrante, Kurt Vonnegut and Willa Cather.