Since 2014, I have worked as a co-director of the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, a highly selective, all-expenses-paid intensive workshop for low-income high schoolers interested in careers in media. I spend 10 days each summer living in the Princeton University dorms with our 40 students, helping them immerse themselves in the world of journalism through reporting and writing assignments. In addition, I co-oversee the college access component of the program, with the goal of helping every student get into an elite private college that will cover their full cost of attendance. Our students have gone on to write and edit for The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Sports Illustrated, and dozens of other publications, diversifying newsrooms across the country.

Since 2017, I have served as a trustee and now chair of the board of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the 145-year-old independent student newspaper serving Columbia University, Morningside Heights, and West Harlem. My role entails not only financial oversight of the publication, but also advising students on everything from thorny ethical dilemmas to career paths in the field.