Employment

Arizona Daily Wildcat
EIC (current), copyeditor, page designer

RedBlue magazine
EIC, reporter, copyeditor

U of A Writing Center
professional writing tutor

Plunkett’s Hallmark
sales associate, supervisor

Spencer’s Gifts
sales associate

Rena’s Pizza
bus girl (as a third to eighth grader, summers in CT)

Internships, Institutes & Programs

The Press Democrat
copyeditor

The New York Times Student Journalism Institute
1 of 20 students selected across the nation (January 2008), copyeditor & podcaster

Video Boot Camp for Print Journalists
one-day lesson and application of video journalism (for online)

Arizona Daily Star
copyeditor

U of A Honors College
reporter for honors newsletters

U of A Writing Center
trained to be a professional writing tutor

Freelance work

Computer skills tutoring
taught Tucsonans how to use various computer programs, including design programs

Writing tutoring
taught Tucsonans how to write better

Awards & Scholarships

William Hattich Award
for professionalism in journalism

Keith Busch Memorial Scholarship
for a student copyeditor, in memory of Keith, who I knew and who passed away in spring 2008

U of A Journalism Scholarship

Arizona Press Club Scholarship
selected as one of three throughout the state

B.P. Campbell Award for Most Outstanding Junior
(in the University of Arizona Journalism Department)

Concerned Media Professionals
first-place scholarship recipient

D.C. "Darn Cat" Scholarship
awarded to a journalism student in memory of the authors of "That Darn Cat"

Arizona Daily Wildcat Award for Excellence in Copyediting
when Nicole Santa-Cruz was editor in chief.

Arizona Daily Wildcat Staff Member of the Week
(on the copy desk)

Magellan Circle Scholar
(U of A College of Social Sciences scholarship award)

First Prize in the 2005 Student’s Guide to First-Year Writing Essay Contest
(essay published in textbook for freshman English classes (in fall 2005)

Selected for the Mark Finley Gold Pen Newswriting Competition

University of Arizona Provost Scholarship
(received four times)

University of Arizona President’s Award for Excellence
(scholarship received four times)

First-Level Honors Award
(half-way mark to graduating with honors)

Dean’s List With Distinction

Valedictorian, Santa Rita High School
graduated in 2004

High school involvement

The Talon
monthly newspaper -- EIC, reporter, sports editor, opinions editor, page designer, photographer

Photography
photos for yearbook, 2 years

Memberships

National Association of Hispanic Journalists

Native American Journalists Association
(founding member of the U of A chapter)

Kappa Tau Alpha
(journalism honorary)

Sigma Alpha Lambda
(national leadership and honors organization)