about abby

I write for Law360’s Employment Authority newsletter covering wage and hour law, as well as employment discrimination and benefits, on a national scale.

Previously, I lived and worked in South Dakota reporting for both the Rapid City Journal and the Pierre Capital Journal, and the stories I wrote during my year there have been published in over 30 different publications nationwide.

In South Dakota, I reported on the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Dakota State Legislature & Governor Kristi Noem, the trial and attempted impeachment of State Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, multiple school districts, Indigenous issues, environmental issues, marijuana legalization, and more.

I graduated magna cum laude in May 2020 from Washington College in Maryland. While a student, I served as Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, The Elm, for two years. Additionally, I interned at the Kent County News and the Washington Blade, a local weekly and a national LGBTQ weekly, respectively.

Upon graduation, I was named a finalist for the Sophie Kerr Prize, the largest undergraduate literary prize in the country, and I won the Maureen Jacoby Prize for strong potential for future success in the field of editing and publishing.