WRITING
A Tale of Two Doctors
A long-form narrative profile on two residents at Stony Brook University Hospital. My story was a top 20 national finalist in the 2017 Hearst Foundation Journalism Award Program’s Personality/Profile Writing Competition.
What It Means to Be A Woman
“When Victoria McDonald was 9 years old, she watched her cousin give birth for the first time. Later, she witnessed another woman breastfeeding a baby. Then it dawned on her:
‘We give birth to the world and we feed the world,’ McDonald said. ‘What can’t we do?’”
A Pilgrimage to Rome
I was the sole storyteller from my team to travel to Rome, Italy, and document the president of Fordham University on a special pilgrimage with domestic and international leaders. I spent five days capturing their journey through five written stories, a two-minute video, and hundreds of photos.
A Presidential Trip to London
I was the sole storyteller from my team to travel to London, England, and document Fordham University’s president visiting our campus abroad for the first time. I spent four days at Fordham’s London campus, creating six written stories, two videos, and hundreds of photos.
Finding Humor in the Darkness
”On a cold day in October 2017, she sat at a Starbucks a few blocks away from Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, drafting suicide letters to her family. Then she got a life-changing phone call from her mother.”
Enemies to Allies
“It was an unusual sight: a silver-haired rabbi and a 27-year-old Palestinian activist, shaking hands and smiling at each other in the same room.”
Q&A with Student Filmmaker
”When you look at Harlem and other Black neighborhoods, there’s always that dark winter within that experience of blackness in America. But you always find the happiness. … Think about the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. That’s the winter sunshine.”
A Tribute to Sister Brigid
“Alumnae describe Sister Brigid as an intelligent woman of quiet strength, a barely five-foot tall lady who could ‘hug you like a bear,’ and a feminist who supported women in all roles—and taught her students to do the same thing.”
A Mother’s Love
“‘When you become a mother, you think of so many things—the world that you’re bringing your child into, that they’re growing up in, and what it’s going to be like. I still think a little bit in that way,’ said Meaghan Barakett, whose 2-year-old son died from Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood in 2020. ‘Brett and I wanted to do something to help make the world a better place—the world that Lincoln would have been living in. And we hope that our scholarship recipients want to do their part to make the world a better place, in their own way.’”
Mourning a Sudden Loss
“He loved brown sugar-cinnamon Pop-Tarts, colorful clothes, and rap music. He was a Missouri native who had just a month ago found a new life in New York City. He was a first-year student at Fordham College at Rose Hill with a promising future.”
