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My love for storytelling started at an early age. I remember begging my parents to let me start a neighborhood newspaper: The 74th Street News. I interviewed neighbors about everything from their custom license plates to snow ice cream recipes to which kid on the block lost a tooth. I’d type up their responses on our family computer and deliver hand-folded issues door to door, obsessed with the process of coming up with stories, asking questions and sharing it with my community.

In high school, that spark only grew when I joined The Shawnee Mission East Harbinger. I spent all four years on staff, eventually serving as Editor-in-Chief of our online site and managing nearly 70 student journalists by my senior year. I wrote everything — coffee shop reviews, silly but thoughtful opinion pieces, breaking news about snow days or COVID-19 restrictions. I loved the challenge of reacting quickly, contacting the right people and reporting clearly, but what I loved most was long-form storytelling: the kind of piece that gives people a voice and makes others care. Stories like the LGBTQ+ club working to create safe space, or the student artists whose work went unnoticed until it was spotlighted in the paper. One feature I’m especially proud of was an in-depth piece on the gray area of school dress codes, and the experiences of female students who’d been called out by male teachers. I saw immediately how something I wrote got our school community talking openly about an issue that had been lingering beneath the surface. That experience shaped how I think about writing — not just as a form of expression, but as a way to start conversations and bring hidden stories to light.

Among all the many reasons I love to write, that's what drives my passion: writing to make people care.

At Elon University, where I’m double majoring in Journalism and Media Analytics, my passion has only deepened. I’ve stepped into the magazine world at The Edge, experimented with graphic design for my sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha, and worked with Elon’s student-run communications agency, Live Oak. I’m also a member of the Honors Fellows program, and during my junior and senior years, I’ll be working with a professor mentor on a research thesis exploring the impact of local news deserts on community connection and civic engagement — a topic that is locally important, as Burlington, NC (where Elon is located) is a news desert itself.

Recently, I’ve also been drawn to the idea of law school — a chance to keep learning and working at the intersection of research, advocacy and storytelling. Media law, especially, feels like the perfect extension of the curiosity and investigative process that fuel my writing.

Whether I end up in a newsroom, magazine publication, a courtroom or somewhere in between, I know I’ll always be writing, asking questions and working toward creating something meaningful. 

Thanks for being here!