WRITING SAMPLES

PRESS RELEASES

Too Good To Go And Whole Foods Market Join Forces in National Effort to Reduce Food Waste

Pioneering Roll-out Sets a New Industry Standard for Sustainability and Minimizes Food Waste in 450+ Locations Across the Country

Too Good To Go Accelerates U.S. Expansion Through Rapidly Growing Partner Network

The Company Behind the World's Largest Marketplace for Surplus Food Adds Thousands of Partners and Millions of Users in 2025

Wyld Launches Wyld Works: A Proactive, Justice-Focused Program That Redefines The Relationship Between Enterprise and Activism

Emphasizing Social and Environmental Impact, Wyld Works Releases 2024 Impact Report with New Comprehensive Outlook on Corporate Social Responsibility

Wyld Kicks Off Summer 2025 With a Splash, Tapping Into THC Beverage Demand With Introduction of Infused Sparkling Waters

New Drink of the Summer Launches in Select Markets and Online, With Seven Bold Flavors and Two Potency Options

Leading Industry Players Spearhead Financial Stability for California Cannabis Coalition to Solve Statewide Debt Crisis

New Industry Alliance Backs Assemblymember Phil Ting’s Credit Law Bill, Bolstering Advocacy Efforts Across the State

Wholesale Platform Nabis Opens Largest Dedicated Cannabis Distribution Facility in the World

87,000-Square-Foot Supercenter to Be First of Three Facilities On-Site, Enabling the Platform to Serve More Than 40% of California’s Market

RESEARCH WRITING

Understanding the Strategic Ritual of Emotionality in Feature Journalism: A Case Study of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles

May 2021 | The Elon Journal

Objectivity and emotionality have long been viewed as opposing forces in the field of journalism. While journalists follow a strategic ritual of objectivity, this paper uses the theory of the strategic ritual of emotionality and argues that the two can, and should, be understood as concepts that can work together throughout feature journalism. This article uses the Pulitzer Prize as a marker of “cultural capital” of journalistic lore and analyzes the winning feature articles through the strategic ritual of objectivity in conjunction with the strategic ritual of emotionality (Tuchman, 1972, p. 134). This research attempts to answer how, and in what ways, journalists use these two rituals to create affect in feature writing.

FOR THE ALOHA ‘ĀINA: BREATHING LIFE INTO THE FIRST FAITH OF ‘ŌIWI AT THE AHU’ENA HEIAU

December 2021

Abstract: The Hawaiian faith is built upon thousands of stories. It is westerners’ single-story ideals of Hawaii that have suffocated Native Hawaiian oral history of faith since their arrival to the islands many years ago. Most Americans that consider themselves to be religious are Christians, myself included, worshipping one deity: God. Hawaii’s native faith is much different than the religions most mainlanders are exposed to. It is crucial to the faith’s survival that we attempt to understand these stories before it is too late.