My Work

As a student journalist, I write for my school paper The Ithacan and create segments for the radio station's news podcast Ithaca Now. This summer I was a news intern for The Ithaca Voice, writing 2-4 stories a week. In Summer 2022, I interned at the Chesapeake Bay Program and wrote blogs about creatures in the watershed and longer articles about restoration efforts working to improve the health of the Bay.

Listed below are the top three stories I loved creating!

County mulls future of airport's U.S. Customs facility amid continued losses

The federal United States Customs facility at the Ithaca-Tompkins International Airport (ITH) that opened as part of a celebrated airport expansion has operated at a deficit every year of its existence, leaving Tompkins County officials grappling with how to handle its future.

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Nonprofit thinks big to tackle agricultural pollution along the Susquehanna River

With pollution from agriculture as one of the main causes of the Chesapeake Bay's poor health, farmers in Pennsylvania often find themselves taking the blame. Lancaster County alone is home to over 5,000 farms and is the number one producer of poultry, eggs, milk and swine in the Commonwealth.

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City of Ithaca to become 100% decarbonized by 2030

The City of Ithaca found itself on the national stage Nov. 4 as the city announced the approval of a plan to decarbonize all of its buildings by 2030, making it the first city in the United States working to become 100% decarbonized.