Boston.com | 11/20/2024
This heavily researched article dives into the details of Kennedy's longest-standing address — a small Boston apartment that he held throughout his presidency up until his death. I wove in many photos, records and archival material, including a copy of Kennedy's lease, to tell a story of how this place played a role in his early political career. I also helped create a social media reel for this story.
The Scope | 4/2/2024
This photo-driven story shows the impact of Street Theory, which is behind 40+ murals across Boston that emphasize color, culture and community empowerment. This story stemmed from ongoing reporting about the city's efforts for more public art and took six months to produce. This piece started as a self-coded project, and after I pitched it, I adapted it to The Scope's CMS using HTML/CSS.
The Rockefeller Foundation | 12/4/2023
This project highlights data from a climate report as part of The Foundation's COP28 content and its overall push for climate solutions. I created all 13 interactive data visualizations in this piece using spreadsheets and Flourish, which showcase climate change's impacts on emissions, energy, agriculture and mortality across the world. (Note: I did not write the report or web copy.)
The Emancipator | 9/19/2023
This is part of a three-part multimedia series about restorative justice, its impacts and a program called RISE, which gives some defendants who plead guilty a chance to participate in a rehabilitation program — with a restorative justice workshop — before sentencing. I wrote and created data visualizations for this part, which focuses on repairing harm with families and communities.
Poynter Institute | 2/28/2023
This 2,800-word piece dives into why journalists and newsrooms must actively work to build trust with their local communities, especially communities of color. I interviewed a wide variety of expert voices from media organizations, like MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and Trusting News, who discuss ways to earn this trust both at the individual and newsroom levels.
The Scope | 2/8/2023
The sport of running in Boston has historically excluded people of color, women and nonbinary people. Coupled with data visualizations, this piece features voices who are part of the growing efforts to make the sport more inclusive and supportive, including those creating and advocating for clubs and competitions designed for runners of marginalized identities.
Nicole Chan Photography | 9/9/2022
Consistently ranked as one of the happiest countries in the world, Iceland is a go-to spot for a proposal. Here are the best locations to explore Northwest Iceland with that special someone — from waterfalls to a hidden oasis to some amazing black sand beaches. This is a 3,000-word travel blog with about 30 images throughout the piece, and it required five days of traveling across the region.
MIT Solve | 5/19/2021
Alia Rasoully created the first maternal health app in Afghanistan: Salamat. Her goal is to uplift women and help healthcare facilities leverage technology to communicate with neonatal patients and collect patient data. In this Q&A, I ask her about her motivations and challenges in creating her company, as well as MIT Solve's role in her impact.
The Huntington News | 3/28/2021
This quick-turnaround piece illustrated a wide variety of long-lasting issues faced by the Asian community on campus — such as a lack of funding, resources and transparency — and highlighted their demands from university administration.
The Scope | 12/22/2020
For this piece, I spoke to wide variety of residents and local community members, along with healthcare professionals and nonprofit leaders, to show how houselessness and substance use heightened to extremes over the last few years.
The Boston Globe | 9/18/2020
This opinion piece for the Ideas section detailed my honest experiences and observations during Northeastern University's ambitious reopening in fall of 2020, in the backdrop of many colleges deciding to be remote. I critique the university's measures, discussing both its successes and shortcomings with nuance. At the time, I served as editor in chief of The Huntington News.
Khoury News | 11/4/2021
This profile dives into Tory's goals in her new role at the Roux Institute, as well as her professional journey at the intersection of research and academia that led to it. Here, I translated technical language and jargon into digestible content for the average reader.
The Huntington News | 8/27/2020
Boston has about 50 institutions of higher education. My co-author and I conducted an in-depth analysis of the fall semester reopening plans of 31 colleges throughout the city and created a chart comparing each plan, focusing on system of learning, isolation housing, periodic testing, calendar changes and dining hall protocols.
VIDEOS
The Scope | 11/16/2022
My colleague and I met with the founder of the Boston Book Festival, along with authors and publishers, and captured book talks, vendor tents and performances.
Behind the Scenes: Canyon Ranch Commercial Shoot
Nicole Chan Photography | 2/2022
In addition to assisting on set at Canyon Ranch resort in Lenox, Mass., I created an upbeat behind-the-scenes video, featuring the photographers, models, stylists and creative directors, as well as the final photos from Nicole Chan Photography.