#PolicyProfile: “I've always been interested in the intersection of policy and communications. In so many ways, media defines how we see the world. I became interested in looking at the role journalism plays in polarization and whether there is an opportunity for journalism to be a force for good, a force for humanizing one another, and highlighting nuance and shades of gray instead of the most extremes. After graduating with my master’s from Columbia.SIPA, I started working at the Solutions Journalism Network (solutionsjournalism), an organization that advocates for evidence-based reporting on how people respond to problems and surfaces insights that communities can learn from. SJN didn't produce stories; we were a capacity-building organization that worked with newsrooms to integrate solutions journalism into their coverage. In that work, I came to look at journalism as a lever in so many policy-related issues. I've always been driven by the immediate applicability, accessibility, an...