TL;DR
(career highlights)
Experience
• Canopy Atlanta
• Atlanta magazine
• Times-Journal
• Montevallo Today
As a senior editor at Canopy Atlanta, I lead the Cost of Living Project and provide editorial direction for the Documenters program. (Learn more about Canopy's journalism model here.) Previously, I was at Atlanta magazine—as senior editor for three years and managing editor for four. Before moving to Atlanta, I managed, edited, and reported for daily newspapers in Alabama.
Awards
• Local Independent Online News
• Atlanta Press Club
• The Folio: Eddie &
Ozzie Awards
• University of Montevallo
• American Society of Magazine Editors
• Associated Press Managing Editors
• Alabama Press Association
• LION: Collaboration of the Year, finalist (2024) • APC: News Innovation (2024); Print (2023); Arts & Culture (2022); News Innovation (2022) • Folio: Magazine Section, City & Regional (2023); Full Issue, City & Regional (2023); Feature Design, City & Regional (2023); Overall Editorial Excellence, City & Regional (2022) • UM: Nathalie Molton Gibbons Young Achiever’s Award (2023); "15 Within 15" (2021) • ASME: General Excellence, Finalist (2020) • APME: Public Service, 1st (2017); Headlines, 1st (2017); News Feature, 2nd (2017); Lifestyle Feature, 2nd (2017); Graphics & Illustrations, 2nd (2017); Education Story, 3rd (2015). • APA: Layout and Design, 1st (2017); Headlines, 2nd (2017); Local News Coverage, 3rd (2017); Magazine, 3rd (2017); Special Section, 3rd (2017); Humorous Column, 1st (2016); Human Interest Column, 2nd (2016); Special Section, 2nd (2015); Human Interest Column, 3rd (2015)
Education
University of Montevallo
Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication with a concentration in Journalism and minors in English and Public Relations
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