Resume

Experience

Report short and medium-term investigative projects for online, radio and TV; using, building and analyzing databases; and requesting public records.
Creating multimedia elements such as graphics and interactive elements, as well as social media and newsletter campaigns, for investigative and marketing projects.
Translate and adapt English stories for republication in Spanish, as well as assist with reporting and interviews in Spanish.
Worked as an investigative assistant from January 2014 to August 2014.

Oversaw all business and editorial aspects of a daily online and twice-weekly print publication with approximately 100 paid and unpaid staff members
Led editorial refocus on hyper-local, digital-first and mobile content. Shifted production format to prioritize timely online content leading to a 23 percent pageview increase
Launched a mobile app for the newspaper and helped create a new social media strategy, resulting in an almost 60 percent increase in Likes in just eight months
Increased advertising revenues by approximately 20 percent and reduced costs by approximately 20 percent year over year within the first semester, shifted to an ad agency model of advertising

Trained and managed a team of 10 columnists for a daily publication
Wrote weekly columns plus unsigned editorials. Managed coverage of the 2012 national and local elections
Helped design and lay out content at least three times a week
Previously senior staff columnist and staff columnist

Spanish literacy and fluency, WordPress design, plugins and themes, Google Analytics, InDesign newspaper layout, still photography
Databases: SQL and Excel, analysis and graphics, economic regression analysis
Data visualization: Tableau, Google Fusion, Plot.ly
AP style editing, management skills in advertising and editorial
Learned government communication, proclamations, official letters and constituent casework during six month internship with San Diego Councilmember Marti Emerald

Double major: journalism and economics with an emphasis on quantitative analysis

Investigative Reporters & Editors | Society of Professional Journalists | San Diego Press Club