Career Highlights/Awards
- In April 2025, I produced the first ever morning show for Appalachian Weekly News, titled Morning on the Mountain. This show aired live.
- In March 2025, I helped promote, plan and execute The Appalachian's 90th anniversary event, an event dedicated to celebrating the paper's history. Promotion for this event included social media, outreach. This event saw a turnout of over 150 people.
- Led The Appalachian newsroom in covering the 2024 Presidential Election, and created live infographics that were updated with election results that appeared on The Appalachian's website. Coinciding that, I also did live reporting on election results for Appalachian Weekly News during the election show.
- Produced the first ever election news brief for Appalachian Weekly News, informing viewers on what to expect for local races and the presidential election.
- Boone, North Carolina was hit by Hurricane Helene in September 2024. I, along with members of The Appalachian student-run newspaper, reported on the storm and the aftermath, in both English and Spanish gaining national recognition. Our reporting provided thousands with resources, brought awareness to how our community was affected and led to us receiving multiple awards. In 2025 I received the College Media Association's Apple Award for first place for Best Crisis Coverage for my coverage on Hurricane Helene.
- In 2025, I received the College Media Association's Apple Award for first place award for Best Diversity Initiative for The Appalachian's 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month issue.
- I was selected as one of three interns for WBTV Charlotte (a top #21 media market) in summer of 2024, in which I worked for the station as a digital content producer, creating content for both the website and their social media accounts.
- In 2024, I received the North Carolina College Media Association's second place award for Best Feature Writing for my piece "Father Duck: Meet App State’s duck caretaker”
- In 2024, I received the College Media Association's Apple Award third place award for Best Multimedia Piece for "Father Duck: Meet App State’s duck caretaker”
- In 2024, I attended the College Media Association Spring National Media Convention in NYC, in which I was a speaker and presented to over 40 people on reporting on underrepresented communities at a predominately white campus and town.
- In September 2023, I applied for and received a $1,000 grant from App State's office of Diversity Equity & Inclusion to fund and create The Appalachian's first ever Hispanic Heritage Month issue.
- This special issue was also fully translated in Spanish, making it the first of its kind.
- In 2023, I attended the College Media Association Spring National Media Convention in NYC in which I was the only student panelist in a session about reporting on substance use and addiction on college campus.
- In 2022, I received the College Media Association's Apple Award second place award for Best Multimedia Breaking News Story for my reporting on a peeping Tom incident that occurred in an all-girls dorm at App State.