I ventured outside of city limits often, but Milwaukee will always be home. I grew up on the city’s northwest side but went to school on Wauwatosa’s east side. I attended the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater for my undergraduate degree, where I double majored in management and political science. After my sophomore year, I completed an internship with then-U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin and her Washington, D.C. office. After college, I took jobs at financial institutions for several years before landing back with Baldwin at her U.S. Senate office in Milwaukee. I then enrolled in a virtual master’s journalism program at the University of Nebraska, where I earned my degree. I left Baldwin’s office to pursue journalism (what I’m meant to be doing) and took a job in Madison with the Wisconsin State Journal sports section while working full-time for the U.S. Census Bureau as an administrative manager to help complete the 2020 census. Once the counting was complete, and amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I moved back to Milwaukee and was hired by the Journal Sentinel. I have contributed to multiple divisions at the newspaper, including investigations, features, business, sports, politics, and news. My reporting on “Wisconsin’s prison crisis” earned me the 2025 A-Mark Prize for Investigative Journalism and an Milwaukee Press Club award in 2024.

I am also a researcher at Marquette University with the Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach. As project manager for Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee, I coordinate efforts to continue the work of a research team that interviews Black residents about their lived experiences from culture, to economics, politics, policing, and more.

I’m content with my laptop and Playstation. I enjoy nine holes of golf with a cart. The parks used to be everything. Go Bucks!