Resume
Work Experience
2023 - Present
Tourism & Hospitality Reporter
South Florida Business Journal
Miami, Fla.
Cover South Florida tourism and hospitality news with a focus on breaking regional online and print stories in the cruise, airlines, restaurant, retail, service and commercial real estate deals.
Build relationships to establish rapport with top power players and market leaders across the hospitality beat while cultivating a solid pipeline of enterprise ideas and source base.
Monitor city halls, county courthouses and other public records to track down private-sector sources who know most about the business ramifications of what’s in play.
2019 - 2023
Associate Writer/Producer
Fox News Digital
Miami, Fla.
Covered lifestyle, entertainment and business news for Fox News Digital, an online 24-hour news service, which includes FoxNews.com and FOXBusiness.com.
Pitched, wrote and fact-checked up to four articles per day while monitoring real-time performance analytics, search engine data and social media trends.
Fully produced digital articles and video packages by gathering properly sized visual elements, including original photography, obtaining licensed stock and partner photos, social media embeds and source-cleared photos/videos from sources per legal-backed copyright guidelines.
2018 - 2019
Technical Content Writer - Computers
B&H Photo Video
New York, N.Y.
Pitched and composed editorial content covering computers and consumer tech gadgets for the B&H eXplora blog, including gift guides, product announcements, instructional how-tos and more.
B&H Photo Video is a world-renowned photography and videography equipment retailer in New York City that’s frequented by content creators of all skill levels.
2017 - 2019
Associate Editor | Senior Digital Features Editor
Black Bride Magazine
New York, N.Y.
Covered multicultural wedding news and curated photo/video galleries for approved real wedding, real engagement, styled shoot submissions and features with appropriate copyright clearances for Black Bride Magazine, a leading digital weddings magazine that highlights women of color.
Pitched, wrote, assigned and edited editorial features covering beauty, fashion, travel, planning, real weddings, engagements, vow renewals, anniversaries and honeymoons for BlackBride.com and for Black Bride’s bi-annual magazine.
Served as a liaison between photographers, submitters and staff while managing posting schedules, coordinating and conducting interviews with various experts in the wedding and lifestyle industry, relaying editorial decisions to submission hopefuls and attending press trips.
2017 - 2017
Editorial Writer - Intern
Purch
New York, N.Y.
Covered consumer technology news for Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag. Both online publications are leading product review websites that help readers make informed purchasing decisions.
Wrote news pieces, features, first-person consumer tech product reviews, how-to guides and roundups concerning technological advancements. Coverage areas included laptops, tablets, phones, mobile device cases, headphones and apps.
2016 - 2017
Editorial Intern | Editorial Assisstant
Cupid’s Pulse
New York, N.Y.
Covered celebrity-related lifestyle news that had a romantic twist for Cupid’s Pulse, a one-of-a-kind entertainment and relationship advice website.
Conducted, transcribed and wrote celebrity interviews via conference call, video chat and email.
Other responsibilities included pitching story ideas, organizing assignment lists, maintaining contributor records and editing article submissions while writing SEO (Search Engine Optimization) lifestyle features, celebrity trends, celebrity profiles, product reviews and relatable love advice for singles and couples.
2014 - 2015
Communications Intern
CUNY Service Corps - NYC Urban Debate League
New York, N.Y.
Assisted in the development of the New York City Urban Debate League website in addition to organizing weekend debate tournaments at participating schools.
Taught public speaking workshops and coached novice to advanced debaters on monthly discussion topics.
Education
-
Students enrolled in the journalism program at The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication are prepared for careers in online, broadcast and/or print news reporting
Journalism students are also required to take a liberal arts minor and complete at least one internship.
-
Students prepare for careers in various multimedia industries, including web and computer programming and design, digital art, audio, animation and video.
Curriculum requirements include the foundations of digital graphic design, web design, video production, a multimedia project lab, and a media arts and technology internship.
-
Students are enrolled in a Career & Technical Education program where a 16-credit course sequence is administered with the intention of preparing graduates for professional roles in the fashion industry.
The fashion design program educates students in fashion design illustration, computer art, garment construction, pattern making and draping in accordance with fashion industry standards. The four-year program concludes with a senior fashion show.
Key Achievements
-
My knowledge of SEO, enterprise reporting and trending and evergreen news identification has driven 10 million+ monthly views with an average engagement time that exceeds well over 30 seconds. Articles I’ve written and produced have been syndicated by domestic and international news outlets, including various Fox Television Stations, the New York Post, Page Six, Yahoo! and MSN.
These skills combined with my background in web programming (HTML, CSS and Javascript) have made it easy for to tackle any content management system (CMS) thrown at me.
-
Need an engaging reporter who can write articles that can be easily turned into scripts? Look no further. My stories have served as discussion topics for segments on Fox News Channel and FOX Business Network, and have even been read verbatim on affiliate new channels.
Even better, I’m also familiar with script-writing software, such as ENPS and iNews, and video editing software, such as Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Wochit.
-
Word counts and photo space matter when you’re producing a print or digital magazine. Find yourself a magazine editor and producer who can wrangle in all your magazine content — from juggling article assignments, securing sources, interviewing, writing and obtaining imagery all while leading first round and final edits, creating new magazine layouts and, of course, penning the cover story.
At Black Bride Magazine, I wrote the cover story on R&B singer Tank Babbs and his wife Zena, for the seventh volume. In the role of senior digital features editor, I introduced creative magazine layouts that hadn’t been done before, including integration of the Black Bride social media feed, editor picks pages for the beauty, fashion, travel and after the aisle sections.
“Black Bride Vol 5: The Planning Issue” (Winter 2017)
“Black Bride Vol 6: The Beauty Issue” (Summer 2018)
“Black Bride Vol 7: Bridal Fashion Trends” (Winter 2018)
-
From first-person product reviewing to brand feature story writing, I know how to make affiliate marketing content consumable with honest and thoughtful praises and critiques. Whether you need a listicle or a news story, I know how to provide helpful, fact-based shopping tips that maintain readers’ trust and keep affiliates happy to still be affiliated.
My editorial-focused affiliate marketing background has increased revenue at digital publications as a writer and manager of Google AdSense, Amazon Associate Affiliate, VigLink and CJ Affiliate accounts.
-
I’ve been trusted with social media accounts that have hundreds of thousands of followers. From managing posting schedules, crafting copy, shooting flatlays, streaming and uploading first-person photo and video from live events, I maintain the brand’s voice and keep viewers engaged while they’re none the wiser.
Notably, as an editor at Black Bride, I represented the company on press trips and managed real-time social media accounts in order to secure editorial exclusives and vacation giveaways for readers per deals we inked with public relations agencies. Pitching the brand’s media kit was essential to securing giveaways.
Featured Publications
