I'm the night reporter at The Baltimore Sun, and a recent University of South Carolina alumnus.

I'm fresh off a five-month stint at The Seattle Times, and I'm excited to be back in Baltimore after spending last summer as a news intern at The Sun.

I was editor-in-chief of The Daily Gamecock, my university's student newspaper, for the 2012 year. During my time as editor, I was named the 2012 South Carolina Collegiate Journalist of the Year, while the newspaper was named best in the state by the S.C. Press Association and received its first top-15 national ranking by the Princeton Review.

My other internships include PressBox, a monthly publication dedicated to Baltimore sports, and Cisco Systems, where I tried out the dark side -- marketing -- for a summer.

Journalism might not pay quite as well, but I can't help but pursue a career in it. I love talking to people and figuring out how best to tell their stories. A great lead or the perfect quote can make my day. My daily scroll through my Twitter feed always seems to result in more opened tabs of articles than I ever have time to read. But it doesn't stop me from trying.

Born and raised just outside of Baltimore, in Catonsville, Md., I'm a big Orioles and Ravens fan. I've seen Dave Matthews Band six times in concert... and counting. And I once prompted Lee Corso to roll his eyes.

I spent my last semester in college freelance reporting for the Free Times and the Columbia Regional Business Report as well as writing for my journalism school's news wire, The Carolina Reporter and News.

(The photo on the top of this page was taken by Marcus Yam, a Seattle Times photographer, at a September 2013 candlelight vigil held in downtown Seattle for the victims of a mall shooting in Nairobi, Kenya.)