Portfolio

I made my *official* debut on my newsroom's weekly newsletter "The Signal." Newsletters/email campaigns are a great way to connect with audiences directly, and ours has been underutilized as an eng...

There's nothing like seeing your contributions in person. Late in 2021, I submitted writing to be included at the Anchorage Museum's exhibit "Counter Cartographies: Living the Land," and I finally ...

I started a regular Q&A series on Instagram stories on a whim. I answer questions about breaking into the journalism industry and share career advice with folks who need it — specifically people wh...

I made a lyric visualizer for a short Mesopotamian-inspired rap.

I contributed writing to an exhibit called "Counter Cartographies: Living the Land" at the Anchorage Museum. The exhibit approaches mapping through a new lens, by using people's personal stories ab...

Happy Birthday, Kobe Bryant. #MambaForever Made a graphic with some of Kobe's most memorable quotes off the court. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great i...

July 2021 playlist. Mostly sad songs. Some not.

Made a GIF for Lupe Fiasco — shared with a QRT.

What's up, Polywork?

Look at my plants.

I started an Instagram for sad music I put in my Spotify playlists 🙃 It's just for fun and another creative outlet.

I intentionally created a tweet to engage a hyperlocal Twitter audience excited about Olympic swimmer Lydia Jacoby's win at the Tokyo Olympics. I used a tactic I've been applying for years and wrot...

I wrote about part of my family's story for The Spenardian, a hyperlocal magazine in Anchorage, Alaska.

Juggling graduate school + full-time work in a local newsroom = Summer 2020

Just for fun: I made a graphic for Suni Lee, the first Hmong Olympian on a U.S. Olympic team and the first Asian woman (of any ethnicity or nationality) to win the all-around gold medal for artisti...

Finished graduate school! I graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a master's degree in communications and concentration on journalism innovation.

For SPRHDRS, I produced a podcast episode of an interview with Princess Dazhraii Johnson, a Neets'aii Gwich'in filmmaker, producer and actress who was the creative producer for the PBS Kids show "M...

Clubhouse, K-Pop and drawing boundaries between work and social media For my newsletter, I wrote about my first experiences on Clubhouse and how much I didn't realize I still liked K-Pop. I also di...

Launched passion project, SPRHDRS, meant to amplify Black, Indigenous and People of Color in media — and to share their accomplishments with the next generation.

Am I a creator now? Started "This Week on the Timeline," (later rebranded as "The Timeline") a newsletter with a rundown on trending social media content, platform news and all things internet cult...