I am the managing editor of Noozhawk.com, a local news website covering Santa Barbara County in California. I have been working at Noozhawk for 12 years and now guide newsroom coverage of everyday stories and special projects, including grant-funded investigations and solutions journalism. Previously, as a general assignment reporter for Noozhawk.com, I wrote extensively about education, city and county government, and health subjects like medical marijuana and substance abuse. I’ve been working on the Central Coast since 2009, when I graduated from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo’s journalism program. In 2012, reporter Lara Cooper and I took the lead on Prescription for Abuse: a special project in partnership with USC’s Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, which awarded Noozhawk publisher Bill MacFadyen with a California Fellowship. The series explored the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs in Santa Barbara County and the problem’s impacts on health care, education, law enforcement, addiction, treatment and prevention.