journalism

I have written hundreds of stories for publications around the country—most often for Inland Northwest lifestyle publications like Out There Outdoors, Pacific Northwest Inlander, and Spokane Couer d’Alene Living.

There’s a h e a v y box in my basement with a clipping of nearly every article I’ve had published in print. I occasionally sift through and scan a few. They’re like old photos: Right after they printed, I couldn’t look at them without seeing flaws. I’d notice an odd phrase—or worse, a typo—and become mortified by the whole thing.

Now I love them. I love my 25-year-old’s wit. I am still moved by the rawness people would show in interviews. I will forever contain a million weird facts gathered for stories.

I have, for the last five years, stepped away from freelance journalism to build a career doing creative work for social impact organizations. But writing isn’t on hold—I’m writing the story I am most excited about at the moment. My thesis project (I’m working on an MA in History), a graphic history, tells the story of Hanford Nuclear Plant’s downwinders through oral histories and other recorded first-hand experience.