photographer, reporter, video producer, entrepreneur, storyteller.

A 2011 graduate of Mercyhurst College, I have a strong interest in the new shape of journalism and all its multimedia facets. As a content creator since the age of 16, there is nothing I love more than telling stories in every medium about people, places and events that shape local communities.

As someone who briefly examined the current news job market before accepting an offer to graduate school, I realize that finding a niche performing that type of content creation is quite difficult these days. To better prepare myself to attain one in the near future, I accepted a generous offer in April to study mass communication at the University of Florida for two years. It’s an enormously exciting time to be figuring out the new direction of journalism, and being at a renowned institution like UF should position me to help determine that new course.

As for the past, I split my undergraduate years between Bowling Green State University and Mercyhurst College. I worked within a wide variety of campus media positions at both institutions, some that I applied for and others that I helped create. A full description of each of these jobs is available below in my resume.

This summer, I worked at Mercyhurst’s Hammermill Library, digitizing a selection of the college’s archived material and making it accessible both internally and online.

I arrived in Gainesville in early August. This blog is a place for me to share the work—whether personal, professional or academic—I produce during the next two years for friends, family and future clients or employers.