About
I hail from the stunning beaches of southern Delaware. We once referred to the area as the “Mid-Atlantic’s best-kept secret” but Joe Biden has a house there and his presidency blew up the spot.
It’s bad for traffic but it’s good for tourism and the family business (a hotel my parents raised me and my sister in). It’s a beautiful area and capturing it sparked my early interest in video production. My Papa handed me his Sony Hi8 when I was 10 years old and that was that. I taught myself iMovie, then Final Cut, followed by Adobe Creative Suite.
I excelled at creative projects but when it came to traditional education, I wasn’t great at sitting still in a desk. With the support of an incredible community, emotionally and financially, I got to France, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, and Swaziland. And then I never finished high school (this is a delicate way of saying I dropped out but continued my education).
Instead of my senior year, I enrolled in the Early College Academy at Mary Baldwin University (then, College). While there, I got a headstart on a Bachelor’s degree and spent weekends exploring Shenandoah National Park. I loved the mountains. I loved the small town of Staunton, Virginia. I did not want to be studying international affairs there.
So I created a way to transfer to American University in Washington, D.C. After four years, a semester abroad in Nairobi, Kenya, and a dozen or so internships & jobs, I graduated in May 2016 with a B.A. from the School of Communications and School of International Service.
10 days after commencement, I dragged a single suitcase up to New York City. I’d secured a contract as a Production Assistant at Bloomberg TV and was due to start 3 a.m. shifts on their flagship morning show “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
Two weeks in, the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, and two months after that, we were in the thick of the 2016 presidential race. The network brought me on full-time that fall.
It was a pleasure to work on the morning show for a few years, eventually line-producing the 6 a.m. hour on TV. This led to an Editor & Producer role on the Bloomberg TV newsdesk, where the team set the editorial tone for the network on major events.
Around the same time, I’d been accepted to NYU’s Stern School of Business Advanced Certificate program (half an MBA). I began night courses in February 2020 and worked a scattered schedule, picking up 2-11 p.m. shifts for our Hong Kong newsdesk (they had all been sent into lockdown due to the coronavirus). And then, suddenly, we were all in lockdown.
It is not an unfamiliar story — my perspective shifted in 2020. I’d been drawn to producing for social but I knew that to make good social video — I needed to better understand our digital audience. A role opened up on the Bloomberg News social team and with the guidance of one of my mentors, I secured the position and stepped away from broadcast.
As an audience engagement editor, I handled the day-to-day of our Bloomberg Equality and Technology platforms, I spearheaded efforts to build out vertical video and I trained new team members on our workflows and style. I chiseled my way into being a pillar of the Bloomberg social team.
In late 2022, an opportunity on the founding social video team at the Associated Press landed on my desk (more literally my Twitter/X feed). I got the role and hit the ground running in early 2023.
Reach out if you’d like to chat.
