TLDR — I'm an MBA candidate at Texas McCombs concentrating in cleantech and graduating in May 2024. Read here about my transition from energy journalist to climate champion.

Poets&Quants featured me on their "Meet the MBA Class of 2024: Influencers & Innovators" list.

Over the past two years as a McCombs MBA, I have worked as a McCombs+ Consultant on electric vehicle charging infrastructure for PwC's Strategy&; a McCombs CleanTech Fellow for AES Corp.'s Motor, a $7M Series A startup; and a member of McCombs' five-person impact investing team, sourcing and conducting due diligence on ESG-focused seed-round startups in a Wharton-run national competition.

Previously for 3.5 years, I was the California energy reporter for Politico (clips) based in Sacramento, covering the energy transition of the world's fifth-largest economy. I also chronicled wildfires, PG&E's historic bankruptcy and criminal probation, and the state's rolling blackouts and public safety power shutoffs.

Before joining POLITICO in 2019, I worked for S&P Global (clips), where I covered the business of energy in the fast-growing southeast United States.
 
I previously was a reporting fellow at E&E News (clips) in Washington DC, where I covered chemical safety and a host of other topics.

I was selected as a 2022 fellow at the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization training young professionals across the energy economy. I was also selected for Columbia University's Energy Journalism Initiative (2018) and the University of Texas' Energy Journalism Workshop (2017).

My reporting has been cited by publications including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, RealClearPolitics, Morning Consult and Government Executive.

I graduated in May 2016 on full academic scholarship from Principia College with degrees in political science and mass communication, and received the mass comm. department's highest achievement award. In the spring of 2016, I was a USA Today (clips) collegiate correspondent – one of 20 nationwide – writing weekly higher education articles with original reporting and photography.
I traveled around the state of Illinois to cover 2016 campaign rallies as credentialed press, and I reported from the Illinois state capitol on the budget crisis that affected higher education funding.
 
Born in Atlanta and raised in Boston, I served as editor-in-chief of Principia's student newsmagazine, The Pilot (clips), along with hosting and producing programs on Principia Internet Radio. In the summer of 2015, I was an editorial intern at National Journal (clips), reporting from Capitol Hill every day that Congress was in session. I've previously interned at The Christian Science Monitor (clips), in addition to the DC offices of U.S. Reps. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) and Lamar Smith (R-TX).
 
In the fall of 2015, I studied abroad in Japan and conducted primary-source research on post-Fukushima nuclear issues. And in May 2014, I traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, with the Principia Leadership Institute to study cross-cultural leadership.
 
In short, I'm going from just writing about climate change to being "in the arena" and fighting climate change.