EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

Professional Practice Assistant Professor,  Utah State University 

August 2024-Present

• Fulfill role statement of 85% Teaching and 15% Service for the University. In-person classroom lectures focused on media production and writing. 

• Launched the state's first-ever First Amendment Club

  • Students met monthly​

  • Helped more than 400 college students register to vote during election week

  • Toured the Utah State Capitol 

• Create curriculum for beginner, intermediate and advanced level students

• Help students get published beyond university publications 

• Arrange guest lectures and opportunities for students to network with professionals

• More information on pedagogy and courses created.

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​Special Projects Reporter, KSL 5 News   

May 2022-Present

• Write, shoot, produce and edit engaging, in-depth, community-oriented stories for on-air broadcasts and web. These stories focus on the most important issues facing our Utah community.

• Create compelling enterprise, accountability stories that capture the threads that hold a community together, touching on important issues surrounding family, health, emotional and physical well-being, education, religion, safety, growth, politics, government policies and quality of life through Utah's wealth of diversity in thought, ethnicity, culture, and beliefs.

• Develop deep sourcing and build trusting relationships with diverse communities across our state.

• Conduct in-depth interviews with experts and story subjects and write creative content for broadcast, digital platforms, and social media.

• Cover breaking news as needed

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​Institute Instructor, Seminary & Institutes of Religion   

August 2020-June 2024

• Create learner-focused environments for students to discover their relationship with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

• Taught two to three college religion classes, in-person per semester to young adults, ages 18-35. Included BYU Pathways students for credit. Taught three semesters of online Institute during the pandemic.

• Piloted the new innovative classroom environment for S&I at the Jordan Institute. 

•  S&I Asia Area Region Conference in Taiwan, 2023 - I presented on reaching out to students to help increase their enrollment.

• More information about curriculum created and classroom spaces.

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Multi-Media Journalist / Reporter, Fox 13 News   

May 2018-May 2022

• Write, shoot and edit video stories on daily deadline for KSTU TV on-air broadcast and web.

• Pitch and investigate enterprising news stories. 

• Set up own live shot through phone Dejaro app and social media.  

• Respond to breaking news. 

• 66% of stories covered in the first year led the A Block in the 5 PM show.

• Out of the 257 stories covered, 33% were personally investigated and pitched.

• 11% of stories were published by national news networks including Fox, CNN and Breitbart.

• 6% of stories were exclusive.

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Freelance Reporter    

Dec. 2017-May 2018 

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• Vacation relief reporter, covering lead stories for KSTU.

 

News Stringer    

Sept. 2017-May 2018 

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• Shoot video as needed for KSL, KSTU, KTVX and KUTV.

• Listen to police scanner.

• Pitch spot, feature and general news story ideas.  

 

Institute of Government & Politics Intern    

Aug. 2017-May 2018 

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• Create promotional videos for Utah State University legislative internships.

• Photography and video for social media accounts.

• Use Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to create event and internship flyers.  

 

United States Senate Intern    

May 2017-Aug. 2017 

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• Communications intern, photography and video for social media accounts.

• Wrote, shot, edited and produced “A Day with Senator Lee.” 29K Facebook views.

• Shot and edited “Celebrating Utah” 13.5K Facebook views 

• Shot and edited “A Heroe’s Welcome for WWII Honor Flight Veterans” 8.3K Facebook views

• Compiled raw footage of “Voices of San Juan County,”  21.6K Facebook views

• Gather daily press clips

• Answer constituent phone calls and emails.

 

Freelance Reporter    

January 2017 

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• Covered the 2017 Presidential Inauguration Swearing-in Ceremony and Woman’s March in Washington D.C. for Utah Public Radio.

• Interviewed Utah Delegates Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. Rob Bishop, Rep. Chris Stewart, Rep. Mia Love and Rep. Jason Chaffetz. 

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Board Member, Heravi Peace Institute

   August 2026 -

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• The Heravi Peace Institute empowers Utah State University students, faculty, and staff by cultivating the necessary character, knowledge, and skills to constructively transform conflict and build peace. Leveraging research, teaching, praxis, and community engagement, we develop and equip peacebuilders for today's world.

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Board of Directors, Major Brent Taylor Foundation

   Sept. 2024 - Dec. 2025

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• lead media/social media operations

• guiding team of student interns and volunteers.

• built clear editorial workflows, mentored emerging communicators, and modeled the professional standards—ethics, accuracy, and care—need as a volunteer organization dedicated to igniting patriotism and civic engagement.

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Trip Leader, Humanitarian Experience, Inc.

   Feb. 2024 - Aug. 2024

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• Helped pilot a new humanitarian experience in Malaysia for HXP.

• Took 39 high schoolers to Malaysia and helped them build garden towers for native Malay people.

• Built 280 garden towers total and planted Okra, Red Spinach and two types of Bak Choy. The garden towers specifically help a community of 700 indigenous Malay with food accessibility. The gardens also create another income resource for the villagers.

• Created and adapted trip itinerary to include cultural experiences that helped teens understand the Muslim, Hindu and Chinese culture that makes up Malaysia.

• Mentored 39 high schoolers from across the USA and one from the Philippines.

• Did one on one interviews to help advise teens in life, religious, education and other questions or concerns.

• Attended three day training for trip leaders in May, outlining HXP’s expectations.

• Heartsaver + CPR Certified

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Volunteer Service Representative in Hong Kong, China

    June 2014-Dec. 2015

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• Speak Cantonese fluently,

• Taught free, weekly English class

• Other community service opportunities. 

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University of Utah

 

• Master's Degree Spring 2023

• GPA 3.8

• Major: Political Science - International Relations with an emphasis on East Asia, China

• Minor: Political Science - Comparative Politics 

• Mandarin Chinese, beginner level 

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Utah State University

 

• Bachelor's Degree Spring 2018

• GPA 3.41

• Major: Journalism & Communications: Broadcast Emphasis 

• Minor: Political Science

 

Utah State University Undergraduate Research Assistant

        2014, 2016-2017 

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• Researched and compiled information:

  • 1) Utah’s early female journalist, Ruth Cowan

  • 2) The first female newspaper printed in Utah, the Woman’s Exponent.

• Coded information

• Submitted article to the American Journalism Historians Association. 

 

• Attended 2017 convention and presented article.

• Won two honorable mentions for the best paper on women’s history and the best faculty paper.

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Utah State University Aggie Blue Print Magazine   

 2013-2014, 2016-2017

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• Wrote and published stories for magazines printed every school semester.