RESUME

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Lawyer and jour­nal­ist who led staff to record num­ber of awards as man­ag­ing edi­tor of the largest daily news­pa­per in West­ern Mass­a­chu­setts and cur­rently serves as man­ag­ing edi­tor of The Con­necti­cut Law Tribune

• Edi­tor and orig­i­na­tor of jour­nal­ism projects hon­ored by Har­vard University’s Nie­man Fellows

• Launched cit­i­zen sum­mits on crime and edu­ca­tion and diver­si­fied jour­nal­ism cov­er­age before tak­ing on full-time law school and coor­di­na­tion of com­mu­nity lit­er­acy efforts in Ham­p­den County, MA

• Passed July 2010 bar exams in Mass­a­chu­setts and Con­necti­cut and admit­ted to prac­tice in both states

LAW

Immi­gra­tion Law – Suc­cess­fully crafted peti­tions and appeals in a wide vari­ety of immi­gra­tion cases as cer­ti­fied stu­dent prac­ti­tioner for West­ern Mass Legal Ser­vices (Spring 2010) and inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor (Sep­tem­ber 2009-Present)

Appel­late Law – Dis­tilled hun­dreds of pages of briefs into recita­tion memos and draft opin­ions on pend­ing cases before the Mass­a­chu­setts Supreme Judi­cial Court as intern for Hon. Judge Fran­cis X. Spina (Fall 2009); write appel­late briefs as inde­pen­dent contractor

Fed­eral Crim­i­nal and Civil Law – Wrote legal memos on a vari­ety of pend­ing cases for U.S. Attorney’s office in Spring­field, MA., as intern (Fall 2008)

Mass­a­chu­setts Child Pro­tec­tion Law – Assisted with trial prepa­ra­tion, includ­ing argu­ing suc­cess­ful motion as cer­ti­fied stu­dent prac­ti­tioner for Chil­dren and Fam­ily Law Pro­gram, Mass­a­chu­setts Divi­sion of Pub­lic Coun­sel Ser­vices (Vol­un­teer, Spring/Summer 2009)

LITERACY

Lit­er­acy Works, Regional Employ­ment Board, Spring­field, MA (Feb. 2007-Dec. 2009) — As direc­tor and later liai­son, man­aged leg­isla­tive advo­cacy and aware­ness, includ­ing writ­ing monthly columns for five newspapers

JOURNALISM

The Con­necti­cut Law Tri­bune, Hart­ford, CT, Feb­ru­ary 2011 to present
Man­ag­ing Edi­tor, Writer

The Repub­li­can, Spring­field, MA, 1990–2006
Man­ag­ing edi­tor (1998–2006), pre­vi­ously enter­prise edi­tor, assis­tant city edi­tor and reporter
Led staff of 150 to record seven, first-place Asso­ci­ated Press awards in 2005 and first-place Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion awards in New Eng­land in 2005–2006
Launched cit­i­zen sum­mits on crime and edu­ca­tion
Launched annual His­panic her­itage, stu­dent char­ac­ter and men­tor­ing program

The Man­ches­ter Her­ald, Man­ches­ter, CT, 1987–1990
Man­ag­ing edi­tor, pro­moted from city edi­tor at this for­mer Con­necti­cut daily

The Union-News, Spring­field, MA, 1985–1987
Reporter

The Palmer Jour­nal Reg­is­ter, Palmer, MA, 1984–1985
Assis­tant edi­tor for Palmer Jour­nal Reg­is­ter and asso­ci­ated week­lies; pro­moted from writer

EDUCATION

West­ern New Eng­land Col­lege School of Law, Spring­field, Mass.; juris doc­tor­ate, May 2010; Class rank, 36/173; (three “Excel­lence for Future” Awards in Crim­i­nal Adju­di­ca­tion, Immi­gra­tion, Medi­a­tion)
North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity; BA Jour­nal­ism, 1985; edi­tor in chief, North­east­ern News; win­ner, Ford Award for pro­mot­ing diversity

REFERENCES

Include for­mer employ­ers, staff and com­mu­nity; fur­nished upon request

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