About Me
Storytelling began at my grandpa's house where I spent my summers click clacking away on his split pea green typewriter. Sometimes I scribbled random thoughts and stray observations on yellow legal pads. Other times, my chunky PC housed a ten-chapter mystery typed in pink Lucinda Handwriting font.
As a kid who lived inside her head, storytelling helped me make sense of the world. Journalism never felt like a choice — it always felt like a calling. In May 2019, I graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in journalism. It was an uphill battle trying to find my voice, but I soon became a strong advocate for local journalism. For years, I cut my teeth by covering various beats across North Central Florida My experience has run the gamut from reporting daily crime briefs at the Independent Alligator to assembling an Asian American magazine as Editor-in-Chief of Sparks to producing the weekend newscast at TV20. I got my first taste of audio reporting by telling the story of the Yamato colony, Florida's Japanese agricultural colony. Now I am a multimedia producer for WLRN news in Miami where I hope to take my storytelling to a new level — one which helps me inform others and build a stronger community |