About

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My goal as a journalist, in any capacity, is clarity.

Journalism is about providing readers with information they can understand and use. I come from a family full of teachers, and while I didn’t pursue classroom teaching, I can provoke discussion and promote learning through my writing and reporting.

In that vein, I’m currently an education reporter and community editor at Chalkbeat Indiana, a nonprofit news website covering K-12 schools and issues of educational change in Indianapolis, as well as education policy across the state.

I graduated from Mizzou BJ ’12, BA in Economics ’12 and MA ’14.

Feel free to navigate through the above pages to see examples of my work.

Credit to Rachel Coward for the portrait above.