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I was a 2022-2023 Knight Lab Professional Fellow at Northwestern University’s Medill School.

I’ve also been a member of the Democracy Fund’s Ecosystem Builders cohort 2021-2024 and was part of the 2019 cohort of Take the Lead: 50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism.

I’ve helped evaluate grant applications as a juror on the Data-Driven Reporting Project, funded by the Google News Initiative, in partnership with Northwestern University, 2022-2023.

I am a long-time member of Investigative Reporters & Editors and most recently volunteered as an award screener, FOI category, (2022) and served as chair of the IRE committee to award the Don Bolles Medal (2024 & 2025). I am also a regular speaker and trainer at the annual IRE and NICAR conferences, typically on the topic of reporting on local governments.

I also served as a volunteer judge for LION Publishers’ Sustainability Awards, helping to evaluate organizations in the Financial Health Award category. (2024)

I began teaching students the summer of 2017, after I answered a last minute call for a volunteer to help at the Frank Bolden Urban Multimedia Workshop, a week-long residential workshop that has been hosted and managed by the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation since 1983 — and I continue to teach and volunteer for the group.

I have been a regular lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University’s A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Workshop since 2017, introducing CMU humanities graduate students, faculty and staff to the field of data journalism and the impact of the work.

I also worked as an adjunct instructor at Point Park University, from 2017-2021, teaching entry-level journalism classes and an advanced reporting class.

I also serve as secretary/treasurer of the Society of Professional Journalists Pittsburgh Pro Chapter, where I’ve been involved since 2017. I served on the regional conference planning committee in 2018 and on the Excellence in Journalism conference planning committee in 2020.