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EDUCATION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, New York, NY, May 2008
- M.S., (Specialization in online media) Honors in first semester reporting workshop
- Reported and co-produced a multimedia master’s thesis on New York City’s female taxi drivers, incorporating video, text, audio, and info graphics.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA, May 2004
- B.A., Magna cum Laude; Major in European History, Honors
- Semester abroad at the University of Bologna, coursework in Italian (Spring 2003)
JOURNALISM/MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE
NEWS21 CARNEGIE-KNIGHT NEWS INITIATIVE, New York, NY
News21 Fellow, May - July 2008
- Multimedia reporter for News21, a consortium of four journalism schools, each tackling one angle of the Election 2008 and working together to produce a final multimedia website. Columbia will be covering “Immigration & Politics.”
WNBC-TV, New York, NY
Multimedia Intern, WNBC Next, Nov. 2007 – May 2008
- Student reporter for WNBC’s website, WNBC.com, covering local New York City news and producing online content.
Production Associate, “Tech4NY: Holiday Gifts,” Oct. – Dec. 2007
- Helped identify and review products, secure interviews, and performed research for a half-hour special on WNBC-TV about high-tech holiday shopping.
FREELANCE REPORTER, 2004 – Present
- Articles have appeared in the Durango Telegraph, the Queens Chronicle, the Queens Courier, and WNBC.com.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Boston, MA, July 2005 - May 2007
Research Assistant – Harvard Opinion Research Program
- Researcher and writer for Professor Robert Blendon, designing public opinion surveys on health policy, cultural and political issues. Analyzed data and wrote summaries for the media and literature reviews covering health policy topics including avian flu, abortion, and stem cell research.
LANGUAGES
- Native: English, Portuguese; Fluent: Italian, French; Conversational: Spanish; Working knowledge: German
- Citizen of both the United States and Brazil. International Baccalaureate diploma in May 2000.
SKILLS
- Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Audacity, Soundslides, ProTools, Storymaker
- Designed the website for an education reporting course called CoveringEducation.org, where students published their work.
MUSIC
- Music Director of Quaker Notes, Penn’s all female a cappella group, 2002-2004.
- Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, 1993-96. Classical piano since 1990; solo recitals in 1998, 2000
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