Work Experience

Voices of Justice: Founder, developer, writer • California • Sept. 2010 - Present

Online multimedia blog project focused on humanizing the crisis in California's correctional system through the telling of honest life stories about correctional officers, inmates and parolees

  • Designed and built the Voices of Justice website
  • Published weekly on The Huffington Post and KALW News
  • Raised money, support and publicity through social network campaigns
  • Combined text, photos and video clips into popular new media narratives, building a high quality and high traffic blog
  • Hitchhiked California in order to interview subjects and write all 25+ stories for the project
  • Developed data visualizations on prison statistics for the project
  • Built and distributed weekly VoJ newsletter
  • A Huffington Post profile of my work with the project can be read here.

The Praetorian Group: Associate editor • San Francisco, CA • Mar. 2009 - Sept. 2010

The leading online media company in the public safety market; committed to helping first responders stay safer and be more effective on the job

  • Sole editor for CorrectionsOne.com, Praetorian Group's online magazine for criminal justice professionals
  • Managed 30+ columnists and published 7-10 columns per week
  • Produced weekly and monthly eNewsletters for a 30,000+ subscriber base
  • Developed partnerships with organizations in the criminal justice community
  • Led video and editorial teams in development of multimedia special reports from events around the country
  • Built and expand magazine’s online community through multimedia reporting, data visualizations and user-developed databases
  • Aggregated and published a daily news feed relevant to the CJ community
  • Wrote regular multimedia pieces on controversial issues
  • Oversaw development of social networking campaigns for all five online magazines at Praetorian Group

Casa Rosario Spanish School: English teacher • San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala • Oct. 2008 - Feb. 2009

Casa Rosario focuses on teaching Spanish to tourists. I started a program to enable tourists to teach English to local children

  • Taught English to groups of children aged 6-12 while working on freelance writing project for Adbusters magazine

CultureSift.com: Freelance writer • North America • Oct. 2005 - Feb. 2009

Culture Sift was a blog I maintained to showcase and publish my work while hitchhiking around the US, Canada, Mexico and Central America writing freelance

  • Wrote freelance for a variety of publications in a variety of countries

The L Magazine: Editorial intern • Brooklyn, NY • Jun. 2007 - Jan. 2008

An alternative weekly magazine for young New Yorkers

  • Worked as a copyeditor
  • Researched and wrote short stories

Backcountry Magazine: Editorial intern • Jeffersonville, VT • Jun. 2005 - Aug. 2005

Weekly, nationwide backcountry skiing magazine

  • Edited copy, wrote product reviews

Education

Saint Michael's College • Colchester, VT • Sept. 2001 - May 2005

  • Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Concentration in new media and visual communications

Technical Skills

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, JavaScript basics, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Adobe After Effects

Visual arts: 35mm, medium format and digital photography, digital video and sound

Languages: English and intermediate Spanish