About

I am an award-winning accountability and enterprise reporter at The Fresno Bee newspaper in Fresno, California. I have covered a range of issues including the agricultural industry, government accountability, hospital bankruptcy/business operations and more.

I was recently nominated for a James Beard Media Award for my 2024 investigation into workplace fatalities at the Pitman Family Farms poultry processing operations in central California. The company is known for its popular line of organic, humanely-raised birds called Mary’s Chicken.

My freelance work has primarily focused on the food and agriculture industry and Mexican-American culture, inspired by my family history.

Prior to joining The Fresno Bee, I lived in Mexico for three years. I first arrived in Guadalajara, Jalisco, as an English teaching assistant grantee of the Fulbright Program in 2015. Then, I later spent two years working with Mexican tech entrepreneurs by day and exploring the city’s cantinas by night. I document Mexican cantina culture on Instagram at @cantinachroniclesmx.

I graduated from USC with a degree in International Relations and with Global Scholar and Renaissance Scholar distinctions. I hold minors in French and Business Law.

“No estudio para saber mas, sino para ignorar menos,” – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Fénix de América

“I don’t study to know more but rather to be less ignorant,” Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Phoenix of America