Resume
Experience
Reporter
The Washington Post
November 2020 – [present]
Reporter
Houston Chronicle
September 2015 – November 2020 (5 years)
Global News Intern
Associated Press
June 2015 – August 2015 (3 months)
NNPA Foundation Reporting Intern
The Washington Informer
January 2015 – April 2015 (4 months)
Knight Scholarship Recipient
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
March 2015 (1 week)
Digital Production Intern
USA TODAY
September 2014 – December 2014 (4 months)
Knight Foundation HBCU Digital Media Fellow*
Online News Association
September 2014 (1 week)
Collegiate Correspondent
USA TODAY
August 2014 – September 2014 (2 months)
Editor-in-Chief
The Hilltop
June 2013 – July 2014 (1 year 2 months)
Student Reporter
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute
May 2014 – June 2014 (2 weeks)
Reporting Intern
Washington Afro-American Newspaper
June 2014 – August 2014 (3 months)
Play-by-Play Announcer/ Producer
Howard Sports Network
February 2012 – March 2014 (2 years 2 months)
Sports Editor
The Hilltop
January 2013 – May 2013 (5 months)
Reporter
Spotlight Network, WHUT-TV 32, PBS
August 2011 – April 2012 (9 months)
Writing Intern
Sumo Skinny, LLC
May 2012 – August 2012 (4 months)
Fred Biletnikoff Award voter (2018-present)
Contributor to: Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, The Washington Informer, Howard University News Service
Graphic Designer for: The Hilltop, 101 Magazine
Research Assistant: Summer 2013 & 2014
Organizations: NABJ (former HBCU Task Force Co-chair of Professional Development)
Awards
Part of a reporting team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of Hurricane Harvey (2018)
NABJ Salute to Excellence Collegiate Award Winner (2015)
For online news reporting
Hearst Award Finalist (2015)
Placed in the top 20 in the country of the breaking news category of the Hearst Awards
Exemplar Award (2015)
Top performing male student-journalist throughout collegiate career
Paul Robeson Award (2015)
For creative excellence and outstanding achievement
Harry S. McAlpin, Jr. White House Correspondents Association Scholarship (2014)*
WHUT Spotlight Network Reporter of the Year (2012)
Academic
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
B.A., Journalism | Political Science minor
School of Communications Dean's List
Drew Hall Honor Society
Courses:
Multimedia Storytelling
Communications Law
Advanced Reporting & Writing
Publications Production
Principles of Economics
Copy Editing
Political Theory
News Lab
Ethics in Journalism
National Government of the U.S.
Spanish I-IV
St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA
*First-ever recipient