Joan Cirillo Emerging Journalist Fellow
Oregon Public Broadcasting - Portland, Ore. | August 2025 to present

• Reports, produces and copy edits across OPB's newsroom, from radio and digital news to social video and the homepage.
• As a digital producer, copy edits content for the newsletter, website and social platforms in AP and OPB style and builds data visualizations for reporters.
• Has produced segments for "Think Out Loud," shot and edited vertical video for the Science and Environment team and filled in as a general assignment reporter.

Copy and Opinions Editor
The Beacon, University of Portland - Portland, Ore. | 2022 to 2025

• Rose from reporter and photographer to copy editor and later opinions editor at the university's student newspaper.
• Edited more than 700 news, opinion, sports, lifestyle and DEI articles and ran the copy desk and opinion publishing schedule.
• Mentored new reporters on grammar, clarity and style, and organized and recorded a podcast with a noted Pacific Northwest writer.

Communications Intern
Sustainable Northwest - Portland, Ore. | Summer 2024

• Wrote staff profiles and conservation stories for the environmental nonprofit.
• Reported from the Klamath River Basin on the Copco Dam removal and from Aurora, Ore., on dual-use solar and agriculture.

Tutoring and writing support

• Tutored more than 100 students in writing, English and Spanish as a writing assistant at the University of Portland (2022 to 2025) and as an independent tutor (2024 to 2025).