I am currently a community manager at Yelp.

Previously, I wrote about health for two and a half years while working for The Bakersfield Californian, and during that time, I took part in the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. As one of my fellowship projects, I followed a group of overweight to obese young people for close to a year and wrote about the obstacles and successes they faced. I also covered the local hospitals, trends in health care and local health organizations, among many other things, writing for both the news and features desks. In 2008, I moved to Louisville, Ky., and began working for The Louisville Courier-Journal. I write government, crime and general assignment stories about the county south of Louisville, Bullitt County. While I don't write much about health anymore, I try to stay abreast of the latest stories. And in January 2011, I finished a project with a fellow reporter that examined prescription drug abuse deaths and the lack of funds being put toward the problem.