Stories, multimedia content and media innovation projects that have won national awards and recognition.

• First Place Pinnacle Award from the College Media Association
• Reynolds Journalism Institute Student Innovation Competition — Finalist
• Multimedia Story of the Year — Fourth Place
• Multimedia Story of the Year — Honorable Mention

Working for over a year as the Business Reporting Intern for my local McClatchy paper, I work on in-depth coverage of local businesses, economic trends and quick turnaround stories on openings and closings in the county.

• Beloved restaurant wins grant to help relight Chinatown district
• A cosmos-themed restaurant and bar celebrates its five year anniversary, and the owners' success is written in the stars
• A probations officer embezzled $160,000 from her union. Will the court grant her mental health diversion?

While also working as the Business Reporting Intern over the week, I expanded to a second role: Weekend Breaking News Intern for the local McClatchy paper. I did fast-paced reporting on developing stories, urgent community news and natural disasters.

• Five people were arrested in Grover Beach, CA after being involved in a stabbing
• Charlie Kirk's death reverbrates across San Luis Obispo County
• Heat wave in Paso Robles, CA breaks the heat record from 1997

It always starts with a question. Luckily, the data is usually there. Here are some investigative pieces I've worked on.

• Is California water in K-12 schools safe?
• An old university building was built before 1960. How's the air quality up there?

I love writing features, finding enterprise stories and anything that involves meeting new people and hearing their stories.

• Cal Poly's President went to Capitol Hill to testify. He spoke for just 8 minutes
• Stray cats lived in an abandoned race track in Berkeley, CA. But someone's been feeding them
• An all-women's surf skate club is dominating the Central Coast surf scene