What taught me to notice.
This is not a résumé timeline. It is a map of the experiences that changed how I tell stories, and how I think audiences receive, interpret, believe, share, and remember them.
Forever Learning
Why teaching journalism means learning in public and accepting that the media environment will never hold still.
Superheroes Welcome
How comics, Star Wars, Disney, music, movies, television, and memes teach us how stories work before anyone calls it media literacy.
Follow the Story
What an Arendelle newspaper sign reveals about stories embedded in places, brands, attractions, and ordinary public space.
The Medium Keeps Moving
Every new platform changes more than distribution. It changes pace, form, gatekeepers, credibility cues, and the stories that get made.
Facts Need Context
Journalism taught me that facts do not arrive with meaning attached. Selection, verification, framing, and presentation matter.
What Is Outside the Picture?
Photography, broadcasting, editing, design, and yearbook taught me to pay attention to everything a frame includes, excludes, sequences, and emphasizes.
Same Story. Different Rooms.
MTV/SonicNet, Disney, and music reveal how platforms, brands, environments, identity, and audience expectation shape the story before it begins.
The Newsroom Is a Lab
Broadcast, yearbook, and journalism education make selection, editing, deadlines, memory, and verification visible by putting students behind the controls.
From biography to media literacy.
The point is not that I have worked around stories. The point is that each room exposed a different lever that can change what a story means to the person receiving it.
True is not always truthful.
Those accumulated lessons became the intellectual foundation for Everything I Told You Was True and the WATER Check.