University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Class of 2010

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism
Minors in Biology and Art History

 

Undergraduate Work Experience

Managing Web Editor at Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Spring Semester 2010
I maintained the DailyCollegian.com website, created multimedia content for website and trained staff in shooting and editing video. I also founded and organized the first fundraiser, Paper Jam, a six-act “battle-of-the-bands” concert event to raise funds for multimedia equipment for the college paper, which was well-received and successful.

Multimedia Intern at Daily Hampshire Gazette
Fall Semester 2009
I shot and edited video for the website, gazetteNET.com, created sound slides and picture slideshows and generated web traffic to news stories using social media, including Twitter and Facebook

Riley Lab/Massachusetts Academy of Sciences
September 2007-February 2010
I worked for Professor Margaret Riley in the Biology department in her lab that studies antibiotic resistance. Initially, I started in basic laboratory prep, which included prepping and autoclaving laboratory glassware and making cell culture media. When Professor Riley founded the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating scientific literacy, I jumped on board, working my way up to Director of Outreach, where I coordinated and presented science outreach visits to local classrooms ranging from kindergarten to high school and designed and ran the Science Outreach Internship for undergraduate students at UMass. As the instructor for the Science Outreach Internship, I designed and taught content for a college-level class, managed the advertising campaign to recruit students to the program, led class discussions regarding multimedia tools, video editing and effective ways of communicating science and devised a grading scale for grading student work fairly and efficiently.

Laboratory Technician at UMass Memorial Hospital
Summer 2007
I extracted data from medical records for use in a comparison study of critical care between the pre-implementation and post-implementation of telemedicine in “Hospital Mortality, Length of Stay, and Preventable Complications Among Critically Ill Patients Before and After Tele-ICU Reengineering of Critical Care Processes,” a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Laboratory Technician at University of Massachusetts Medical School
Summer 2006
I collected data for studies on asthma and sepsis, which included working with Escherichia coli, human blood samples and murine models in a sterile animal facility.