Description: I am a freelance journalist out of Denver, Colorado. I have written feature stories, medical data pieces, business stories, culture pieces and more. I am proficient in online as well as in-print journalism. I have skills in graphic design, portrait and magazine photography, social media marketing, podcasting and online video. My favorite medium is the written word.
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Covering the New York City Housing Authority, I found, with my colleague, that residents would go the whole holiday season without gas for cooking. I initially found this lede by looking at 311 data. Then I charted graphs and maps using Datawrapper and HTML, interviewed tenants weekly and filmed a project before getting published. A local council member brought Thanksgiving dinner to residents after seeing our report.
A curious patient spurs one physician on to a life of research.
For most people the name Willy Wonka conjures up images of chocolate, Oompa-Loompas and a little orphan boy named Charlie. But for Dr. Alex Spyropoulos, an anticoagulation and clinical thrombosis researcher, the name summons up an entirely different narrative. For him, Willy Wonka is not a man in a funny purple hat, but a real-life patient that spurred his lifelong interest in studying anticoagulation.