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I’ve lived in Fredericton for the past six or so years now, where I’ve spent my time getting to know the growing community. My first four years here were spent getting my degree in journalism from St. Thomas University. (I also studied communications and fine arts!)

In 2022, I started an internship at CBC News where I met some amazing friends. That summer was one for the books.

I live with my cat Vesta. I adopted her after I finished university and she’s around four-years-old. She loves to get dressed up and lounge in the sun on my balcony. Talk about a girl’s best friend!

I grew up doing musical theatre on my home island of Cape Breton, N.S. and still love it to this day. I am always excited when I can find a way to intersect my two passions and explore New Brunswick’s vibrant arts community in my reporting.

When I’m not working, I love taking in live music and traveling. I didn’t see much of Canada when I was young so I’ve been working my way through my must-see spots as a young adult.

I spent much of my time as a pre-teen/teen volunteering in my community. I started a non-profit at 10-years-old that would raise money for charities of all kind, which I ran for around six years. In 2016, I got sick and was eventually diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called lupus. While I couldn’t volunteer as much as I used to, I tried my best to spread awareness about the disease, which is often not diagnosed until later in life.

Work Experience

• CBC New Brunswick

  Reporter/Editor

  May 2022 – Present

  In May, I began an internship at CBC New Brunswick which included an extensive three-week training period. During the summer, I got to work on web, social media and radio. After completing the internship in August, I started a new role as a reporter/editor at CBC based in the Fredericton office.

• Pocketed Grant Platform

  Digital Marketing Coordinator & Content Creator

  May 2021 – December 2022

  I took a little break from journalism for a summer internship in the marketing field at Vancouver-based startup Pocketed! I wanted to build skills in the marketing and public relations field to help widen my skill set and learn from a new group of people. In this position, I talked to platform users and partners to produce feature-length and short-form testimonials. I also updated the blog with weekly content about grant financing and Pocketed’s platform. After my summer internship, I continued in the role of Copywriter & Content Creator doing bi-monthly blog posts and various other tasks.

• The Aquinian

  Editor-in-Chief

  May 2021 – May 2022

  After serving a year as news editor at St. Thomas University’s student newspaper, The Aquinian, I moved into the position of Editor-in-Chief. In this role, I managed a team of 9 editors and producers and put out a fully-edited online publication every week. This role was based heavily on teamwork and creating a workplace flow. But, I also had the chance to cover breaking news and stories like November 2021’s CUPE strike.

• The Aquinian

  News Editor

  September 2020 – April 2021

  I started writing for the Aquinian as soon as I started university, voluntarily of course. In my second year, I applied for an editorial position became the News Editor for the 2020-21 academic year at St. Thomas University. I wrote and edited news stories focused on Fredericton, pitched about 5-7 stories at weekly story meetings, and covered the school’s weekly students’ union meetings.

• Saltwire Network

  Columnist/Reporter

  April 2017 – December 2021

  In 2017, I began a Co-Operative Education placement as a reporter at the Cape Breton Post. I started slowly with news briefs and worked my way up to my first byline. That summer I was invited to work as a reporter at the Post and I embarked on my first real journalism job. After that summer, I started a column there entitled “The Riverview Notebook” where I talked about life at my high school, Riverview Rural High School. When I graduated, my column became “A Caper’s View,” which appeared in five Saltwire Network publications across the Atlantic provinces monthly.

• Huddle Today

  Business and Economics Reporter

  July 2020 – August 2020

  During the summer between my first and second year of university, I took on an internship through St. Thomas University at Huddle Today. Huddle is a business publication born out of New Brunswick. I worked full-time for almost two months where I wrote around 36 articles. I was working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So, I was living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia while reporting on business and economic issues in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

• The Brunswickan

  Staff Reporter

  December 2019 – April 2020

  During my second semester of my second year at St. Thomas University, I applied to work at University of New Brunswick’s The Brunswickan as a reporter. I would write approximately 2-5 articles per week for online and one per month for their monthly magazine issue. I wrote anything from reviews to satire to news coverage. 

• New Country 103.5

  Brand Ambassador

  May 2019 – April 2020

  My summer going into my second year of university was spent at New Country 103.5, a radio station in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I worked as the summer brand ambassador. I drove all over the island attending events and broadcasting my attendance on the radio and live on social media. When I returned to Cape Breton for breaks during my second year of university, I’d work small jobs for the station.