As Executive Director of Student Media at Rice University, I lead a department of professional staff and student journalists. In addition to providing support to our student-run radio, newspaper and yearbook we’re building the Houston Newsroom to expand professional-quality audio-first reporting by Rice students into the wider Houston community.

I’m the founder of the Illinois Student Newsroom at Illinois Public Media, a sustainable ‘teaching hospital’ model that transformed student production and earned a wide array of national honors.

My leadership in the College Media Association and my research with the AAUP focus on defending the independence of student media and drafting legislative protections for the next generation of journalists.