The Rocky Mountain Collegian is the independent student newspaper at Colorado State University, housed under Rocky Mountain Student Media Corporation. The Collegian, an award-winning publication, publishes in print weekly and online daily.
I worked at The Collegian from fall 2019 to spring 2023 and was a news reporter, copy editor, news editor, the content managing editor and the editor in chief. As a reporter, I published major breaking news, feature stories relevant to the community, contributed to investigative reports and covered vital political and cultural events.
Below you'll find links to a few of my favorite articles I've written for The Collegian. A lot of my reporting experience is focused on political and government reporting, breaking news and general community stories. For more work examples, follow these links:
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A mural of a woman’s silhouette hangs on a wall in Simon Guggenheim Hall of Household Arts with the inscription “WATCH WHAT SHE CAN DO.”
The woman, who wears a construction hat made out of a protractor, has two purposes: to empower women in male-dominated industries and to show survivors of sexual assault and harassment they are not alone.
*My work reporting this story earned me the 2023 CSU Journalism & Media Communication Ethical Practices in Journalism Award, given to a graduating senior each year.
Just about any kid in Fort Collins has — at least once — found themselves asking “Why is there a giant ‘A’ on that hill?” at some point or another.
The explanation at its most basic goes somewhat like this: “Well, the Rams used to be the Aggies, because they were an A&M school — that means agricultural and mechanical. We have the ‘A’ to remember that.” And so the Aggies and their orange live on even as the town paints itself in green and gold.
Maggie Hendrickson was never very fond of the boxes society has tried to put them in.
Growing up, Hendrickson’s peers never seemed pleased with the way they presented themself. When they dressed in the way that felt most comfortable to them, they weren’t “girly” enough for others, but when they tried to fit in, it wouldn’t appease anyone either.
*This story was part of a special edition of The Collegian that won the 2020 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for feature writing. We won the category for SPJ Region 9 and placed as finalists for the national award.
In a community input survey conducted by the City of Fort Collins for the 2019 Transit Master Plan, 26% of people said public transit in Fort Collins doesn’t go either where they want or when they want.
In the same survey, 59% of people said they would support “big changes” to enhance the Transfort system. A major change demanded by the community is the updating of bus stops across the City to make them compliant with standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act.