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Employment

•Staff reporter, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, October 2006-present
• Staff reporter, The New York Observer, New York City, Apr. 2005-Feb. 2006
• Intern, The New York Times, Trenton bureau, Sep. 2003-Sep. 2004
• Stringer, The New York Times, Metro desk, Apr. 2003-present
• Assistant editor, Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., New York, Oct. 2002-Mar. 2003; editorial assistant, July 2000-Oct. 2002
• Photography intern, Studio Alan de Bock, Paris, France, summer 1999
• Freelance reader/reviewer of French manuscripts, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., New York City, Sep. 1998-Mar. 2003
• Intern, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., New York City, summer 1998
• Intern, Freedom-to-Write Committee, PEN American Center, New York, summer 1997
• Spring study, The Washington Post, under regional correspondent Dale Russakoff, May-June 1996

Freelance Writing
• Author, Burning Book: Two Decades of Burning Man, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, August 2007
• The New York Times (sections: metro, city, book review, New Jersey regional)
• The Washington Post (sections: Outlook [op-ed], book review)
• The Queens Chronicle (misc. feature)

Related Experience
• Editor-in-chief, A Further Room, literary/art magazine of Amherst College, fall 1998; staff editor, Oct. 1996-Dec. 1999
• Publicity and promotions director, WAMH, 89.3 FM, Dec. 1997-Dec.1998;
staff disc jockey, Dec. 1996-Dec.1998, Sep. 1999-May 2000

Education
• Columbia University, New York, NY: M.S. Journalism, co-valedictorian, October 2004
• Amherst College, Amherst, MA: B.A. English and French, summa cum laude, May 2000
• The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Montclair, NJ: graduated June 1996

Honors
• Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, 2005
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2000
• Ralph Waldo Rice Prize, recognizing strongest English thesis in candidacy
for honors, Amherst College, 2000
• Alpha Delta Phi/David P. Patchel Memorial Fund Grant, for travel and
post-thesis research in South Africa, Amherst College, 2000
• Laura Ayres Snyder Poetry Prize, Amherst College, 1999
• National Merit Scholar, 1996

References available upon request...