Gumshoe.
Analyst.
Force Multiplier.

 Professional Experience 

 Freelance Reporter, Panelist, and White Paper Author, (11/2025 - present) 
• Undertake and complete investigative projects and other enterprise journalism for regional and national news organizations
• As an expert panelist, present on the demographic, societal, and technological challenges ahead for public research universities across the next 25 years
• Draft white paper entitled "Generational Change: Public Research Universities and the Next Quarter-Century (2026-2050)"

 Senior Reporter – The Chronicle of Higher Education, (11/2021 - 10/2025) 
 Staff Reporter – (01/2018 - 10/2021) 
• Pitch and produce original breaking-news content, medium-term enterprise analyses, and long-term investigative projects
• Spearhead and collaborate on FOIA and open-records requests, as well as on data-driven and agenda-setting projects
• Code and deploy a suite of free or low-cost reporting and data-collection assets

 Data Reporter – The Chronicle of Higher Education, (04/2016 – 12/2017) 
• Collect, clean, analyze, and lead the publication of The Chronicle’s semiannual chief executive compensation projects
• Pitch and produce data-driven articles, and collaborate with reporters

 Data Reporter – Saint Paul Pioneer Press, (02/2015 – 04/2016) 
• Produce data-driven stories and online interactive features
• Assist reporters in learning data skills or applying them to their beats
• Maintain and build in-house databases for reporters and editors, plus an online data repository for the public

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