🚐🏍️🌴Dirt bike racer. Marketing pro. Award-winning journalism professor.🤙Alumna @NewhouseSU @USouthFlorida #amwriting

Surprise, AZ
Joined March 2009
People with rescue dogs: “She’s rescued me, actually.” #same
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“The first time I took a visit to @SyracuseU, it was pretty clear to me that this was the place I wanted to go.” #same @NewhouseSU @Coach_McNamara
Gerry McNamara ’06 knew from his first visit that #SyracuseU was the place for him. Now he’s back as head @Cuse_MBB coach, and he’s sharing how the university and the @NewhouseSU classroom prepared him to lead. Watch the full video: bit.ly/4iaN2Ot
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“Who am I if I am not working on a sports story on deadline, typing alone late at night in press boxes, searching for the perfect words while cleaning crews vacuum around me?” 📰
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“With neuroplastic on my side, I can become exactly who I want to be. How cool is that?!” @GoEileenGu 🤩
Did not expect a question that starts out 'Do you think before you speak?' to go so well. A+ question from Charlotte Harpur A++ response from Eileen Gu.
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Skills that have nothing to do with money but are worth serious practice: Charisma. Reading your own thinking. Critical thinking. Sitting with discomfort. Saying clearly what you believe and why. Changing your mind when the evidence changes. Almost nobody actually trains these. It shows.
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Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. Get your dopamine from action.
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Write more. Write to think. Write until you're no longer confused. Write about the problems you already solved. Write for the person you were 2 years ago. Write so you never lose what took you years to figure out. A simple writing habit can change absolutely everything.
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“The story is nowhere near put to bed just because we put to bed that one newspaper that will hang in the hallway of The Post for decades.” @Poynter The best investment in journalism might take decades to pay off poynter.org/commentary/2026/…
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The more you help others the calmer your mind will be. You will be able to overcome misdeeds committed in relation to others. Familiarizing your mind with kindness and compassion yields peace of mind, which makes you happier and even improves your physical health.
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Overheard @jeremyshoning: “I just realized I’ve not had regular shoes on since I got here.” #azlife ☀️🩴
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My dream life has gotten progressively less impressive the older I get. Honestly, all I want is to be surrounded by trees, books, art, animals, good food, endless coffee, a peaceful home and people I can be completely uninteresting around. Basically a life that doesn’t look like much from the outside but feels like a warm hug from the inside.
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"...following ethical codes can be like putting on a seat belt in your car; it sometimes feels restrictive and you don’t always need it. But when calamity comes, they can be a lifesaver." @Deggans 👏ericdeggans.substack.com?utm…
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"Playing it safe isn't actually safe. You're just trading the chance of winning for the guarantee of nothing."
what your risk-aversion costs you
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“To me, the awards are not the reward,” she said. “The bigger reward is getting justice for people who can't fight for themselves.” - @jkbjournalist
Temple journalism alum Julie K. Brown, KLN ’87, earns a Pulitzer Special Citation. 🏆👏 Recognized for investigative reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein case, Brown’s work helped expose serious failures in the criminal justice system. Read more: bit.ly/4q6SMuP
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“With photography and visual journalism, it can be a very intimate experience...We can’t do our job from the phone. We can’t do the job from an office. We have to be with people, sometimes in their most vulnerable moments, and truthfully tell their stories."
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Year 3 @Rabaconda Sturgis rally 🏍️💚 @harleydavidson making tire changes so easy “even you can do it!” 🤣
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Must-read article for anyone whose job involves *thinking* nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opini… "The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling... What, uniquely, does writing do? ... It compels thinking in ways that silent contemplation or spoken language rarely can."
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Overheard: When her boyfriend says: “It’s kind of fun just being the cheerleader. I didn’t think I would like it this much.” #azgirlsride #traildaddy
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I earned this award by winning my August Challenge!
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