Visual Poetry
A location story told without a single interview. Just visuals, sound, and place.
Writing Clips:
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My full archive of Duquesne Duke articles lives here: covering a Grammy-winning Pittsburgh native, the city's mourning of Mac Miller, an artist's first showcase and their experience with schizophrenia, and much more.
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An op-ed on methane emissions, published in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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An article on Canada's approach to foreign aid funding, published by The Borgen Project. Read it here.
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A selection of articles I wrote and edited for the Downtown Neighbors Alliance's weekly Downtowner Newsletter.
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Two essays published in Spork!, a disability journal based in Chicago.
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An album review written while studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland, published in the University College Dublin Tribune.
DIY Music Trailer
When asked to tell the story of a community, I chose Pittsburgh's music scene. Naturally."
Tha Local Beat
Tha Local Beat started as a college radio show at Duquesne, won Best Rookie Show and the Continued Commitment Award, and grew into a standalone podcast with over 7,000 plays. These are excerpts from conversations with local Pittsburgh artists.
Ace of Clubs: Debut Novel
Ace of Clubs is a novel best described as Succession meets Ted Lasso — drafted, edited, and published in a single year with New Degree Press, while simultaneously working at The Downtown Neighbors Alliance and completing grad school at Point Park University.
It is available on Amazon now. Click the image to read the first few chapters for free, or read this article about the book here.
Papers
Media Ethics
Ethics of Fact Checking
A media ethics argument that journalists' failure to fact-check WikiLeaks before publishing the Podesta emails materially shaped the 2016 election: analyzed through utilitarian, Kantian, and Foucauldian frameworks.
Magazine Journalism
Commuter Story
A reported feature on what makes commuting so universally miserable: told through the voices of Pittsburgh bicyclists, bus riders, and motorists, with data from cities around the world.
PR For Non-Profits
St. Clair Health PR Plan
A full-year strategic communications and fundraising plan developed for the St. Clair Health Foundation, covering social media, donor outreach, publications, events, and email campaigns across four major appeals.
PR For Non-Profits
Fundraising Book Report
A synthesis of four nonprofit fundraising and marketing texts, arguing that empathy, branding, and donor strategy are inseparable. And that for-profits and nonprofits are more alike than either would care to admit.