RECENT WORK
For more detailed information, please see my LinkedIn page.
2019-Present Podcast Producer, WBUR Boston NPR
2017 Producer, Harvard University's Eurasian Enigma podcast
2015 Volunteer, Fresno Filmworks (voiced radio PSAs, produced promotional audio).
Read a "volunteer spotlight" interview with me here.
2014 Intern, artinrussia.org (now called Museum Studies Abroad) (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2013 Production Intern, St. Louis Public Radio (St. Louis, Mo.)
2012 Production Intern, National Public Radio Arts Desk (Washington, D.C.)
2012 Reporting Intern, KBIA public radio (Columbia, Mo.)
2010 Reporting Intern, KQED public radio (San Francisco/Fresno, CA)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2018 Immersive Sound Design 5-week workshop at the PRX Podcast Garage
2018 Association of Independents in Radio's Full Spectrum Storytelling
Workshop held at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, NYC. Read the announcement
2017 NPR Next Generation Radio program held at Phoenix member
station KJZZ.
EDUCATION
2019 Harvard University
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellow
M.A. Regional Studies-Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia
Area of focus: Politics of the contemporary Russian film industry
2017 University of Missouri
M.A. Russian Literature
Area of focus: 19th century literature, intellectual history
2013 University of Missouri
B.A. Russian Literature, Minor Political Science
SELECT ACADEMIC HONORS
2019 Named a Harvard University Commencement Marshal
2018 Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship, Harvard University
2017 Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship, Harvard University
2017 **Fulbright research grant to Kyrgyzstan
2016 U.S. Department of State Title VIII fellowship (Kyrgyzstan)
2016 **U.S. Department of State Critical Language scholarship
** Declined to accept other opportunities
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 Moscow / St. Petersburg, Russia (2 mo.)
Thesis research
2016 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2 mo.)
Intensive Russian language study on State Department Title VIII fellowship
2014 Moscow, Russia (6 mo.)
Writing Consultant at NES's Merrill Lynch Writing and Communication Center
2013 St. Petersburg, Russia (6 mo.)
Intensive Russian language study, intern at artinrussia.org