Freelance Foreign Correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya

ABC News on Campus “Roving Reporter of the Year 2010”
NAHJ Student Fellow at NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (Summer 2010)
Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar 2011 (Walter & Betsy Cronkite Award)
Society of Professional Journalists Region 3 Mark of Excellence Award Finalist
Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition (Japan 2011)

Stories aired and featured on CNN Newsroom, ABC News International, MSNBC.com, BBC WHYS, NBC-2 WBBH, Current TV, Naples Daily News and WGCU Public Radio.

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