I am an Austin-based freelance journalist specializing in coverage of energy, the environment, climate change and emerging technologies. Throughout my career, I have also written about politics, education, city government and business. 

So far in 2024, I’ve been writing for Inside Climate News, Government Market News and The Texas Tribune, where I was a Reporting Fellow in 2023. My reporting has focused on the Texas electric grid, the transition to renewable energy, tracking federal infrastructure investments and telling stories of how environmental pollution impacts the neighbors of everything from coal plants to landfills.

Reporting for the Austin American-Statesman, I covered city hall in Bastrop, Texas, and local news from communities in the Austin area. In the publication Community Impact, I have written features on restaurants, small businesses, nonprofits and prominent neighbors in the Austin area.

In December 2023, I completed my master’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. At UT, I wrote for the student publication Reporting Texas, and I was awarded ‘Best News Feature’ of the 2022-23 academic year for my reporting on the proposal to build an offshore oil export terminal near a Gulf Coast community. In addition to digital media and newspapers, I’ve worked on multimedia video, audio and data projects.

My undergraduate degree in Rhetoric is from the University of California at Berkeley, where I graduated in December 2017. While attending UC Berkeley, I got my start in journalism as a copy editor for the student-run newspaper The Daily Californian.