Education

Johns Hopkins University

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences | Baltimore, Md. | 2020-22

Master’s thesis: “Backbone: Stories from the Frontiers of Public Health in Pandemic-Era Florida”
Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowship | Council for the Advancement of Science Writing | 2021-22
Panelist: Science Journalism, the COVID Beat and the Next Pandemic | JHU Advanced Academic Programs | 2021
Advanced Standing student
Earned 4.0 GPA while working full time
Graduate courses completed
- Communicating Climate Change
- Contemporary Science-Medical Writing: Creative and Professional Forms
- Public Health in Action
- Science-Medical Writing Workshop
- Science Narratives Workshop
- Subatomic Writing
- Thesis and Careers in Science Writing
Non-degree courses completed via Coursera
- Cancer Biology Specialization (credential ID: XEDFXWZJR8DL)
  - Introduction to the Biology of Cancer, with Honors (credential ID: 87EFEL59EH6M)
  - Understanding Cancer Metastasis (credential ID: UBMY2JSGB7K7)
  - Understanding Prostate Cancer (credential ID: DMKGBVNPHNP9)
- The Data Scientist’s Toolbox (credential ID: FS3XV4KKT7DG)

School of Communication | Washington, D.C. | 2017-19

Master’s capstone: “Mississippi librarians fight back in nationwide effort as White House again proposes nixing federal library funding”
Commencement speaker finalist | 2019
Merit Award recipient | 2017
Earned 4.0 GPA while working full time
Graduate courses completed
- Backpack Video Journalism
- Capstone Seminar in Journalism
- Communication Law
- Data-Driven Journalism
- Innovation and the Media Industry
- Longform Storytelling
- Photography and Visual Storytelling
- Topics in Mass Media: Audio Storytelling
- Web Studio
- Writing and Editing for Convergent Media

Forbes College | Princeton, N.J. | 2006-10

Senior thesis: “The Italian Mafia and the Emergence of American Media: An Exploration of the Faint Origins of the Italian Mafia in the United States, the Wavering Response of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Media Revolution that Brought Organized Crime to the Public’s Attention”
Junior paper: “The Evening Courier: A Brief Look at the History of Italian Print Journalism, Italy’s Leading Newspaper Corriere della Sera, and the Influence of American Culture in Modern Italian Media”
Gamma Kappa Alpha National Italian Honor Society | 2010
Edwin F. Ferris Class of 1899 Grant for Summer Internships in Journalism | Washington Spaces magazine | 2008
Dorothea van Dyke McLane Prize for Outstanding Freshmen in Italian | 2007
Journalism seminars completed
- The Business of Journalism
- The Media in America
- Social Issue Filmmaking

Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France | 2009

Alexandria, Va. | 2002-06

Pasadena, Calif. | 2005