As an Emmy Award-winning journalist with a decade of multi-media, writing, editing, and storytelling experience, I seek to notice the seemingly insignificant details in life and unwrap the stories they hold.  In my efforts, I am attentive and genuine, open-minded and positive, detail-oriented and meticulous, and passionate to reveal the truth.

I am a Midwesterner through and through with the hospitality of a Southerner and the work ethic of a New Yorker. 

As a journalist, I am jazzed by the fact that each day is an adventure with the privilege of uncovering facts to tell others' stories. 

I believe storytelling is about the truth, characters and details. It is wrapped in emotions and multi-faceted. I believe great reporting comes from taking the extra time to find the true crux of the story, following to the end of the scavenger hunt for facts. To me, a story must be humanized to provide the audience an authentic view.

I’m currently a Reporter at WBTV-News (CBS) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Previously, I was a Multimedia Journalist at NewsChannel 5 (CBS) in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, I spent three years in Lexington, Kentucky, where I was a Multimedia Journalist and Anchor at LEX 18 News (NBC). The following are a few career highlights:

• I’ve covered everything from breaking state and city political news to flooding and tornado devastation, to historic bourbon distilleries, multi-part investigations, historic snow storms, Triple Crown winners, the Kentucky Derby and University of Kentucky basketball fanatics!

• I received an Emmy Award for my work covering the 2019 Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky.

• While covering the 2020 Coronavirus, a story I reported on was picked up by CNN & MSNBC.

• In an exclusive investigative story, I revealed the University of Kentucky sent half a million erroneous acceptance letters, a story national news outlets quickly picked up.

• While producing a positive news series in Nashville, several of my stories were featured on CNN, Good Morning America and CBS News Radio Weekend Roundup.

• I’m passionate about telling stories of children who have been abused and neglected. While continuing that work in Nashville, one of my stories was picked up by the Associated Press and U.S. News and World Report.

• In 2022, I received the Arc Tennessee Statewide Public Awareness Award awarded to one Tennessee journalist for outstanding efforts that create better public understanding of people with disabilities. I was nominated for a story that helped pass a Tennessee law requiring adult-size changing tables in state welcome centers, rest stops, and state parks. The law also installed a $1 million grant for businesses and local municipalities to apply for the necessary bathroom renovations.

• In 2022, I was nominated for an Emmy Award for a story I did about an organization that’s been serving Nashville, Tennessee’s, homeless on bicycles for a decade.

• In 2023, one of my stories about engineering students who built another student a prosthetic hand was featured on CBS Mornings, CBS Evening News, CBS News Radio Weekend Roundup, Good Morning America, on dozens of CBS News affiliates across the country, and Inside Edition.

• In 2023, I was nominated for an Emmy Award for my helicopter reporting during the aftermath of The Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.

• In 2024, I placed second for the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas 2024 Local News Excellence Hard News Feature for a story about a mother searching for answers about her son who mysteriously died in Mexico.

I attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, and graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism with an emphasis in Convergence Television Reporting and a minor in Business. My university studies were comprehensive and diverse and included covering a professional tennis tournament in Beijing, a semester internship for a start-up in New York City and a summer internship for a digital and print magazine in London. I also reported, anchored and digital produced at KOMU 8 News, the NBC affiliate in Columbia for four years.

I chose this field with a desire to chase investigative stories and clearly relay them across an array of media mediums. I also chose it to make a difference in the lives of those I interview and the community I live in. I have multi-platformed technical skills as well as a keen sense of curiosity that I exercise daily. I desire to reveal stories that matter—stories that make viewers think and offer the facts so they can form their own opinions.

When not working, you’ll find me spending quality time with friends and family, singing, playing or coaching golf, squeezing my toes in the sand while reading a book or watching baseball, preferably the St. Louis Cardinals!

I look forward to connecting with you!