Reporter, Bay Area

A native central New Yorker, Colleen worked as an editorial intern with the Cy-Fair and Lake Houston | Humble | Kingwood editions of Community Impact Newspaper before joining the Bay Area team in 2020. She covers public education, higher education, business and development news in southeast Houston. Colleen graduated in 2019 from Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she worked for the university's independent student newspaper The Daily Orange. Her degrees are in journalism and Spanish language and culture. When not chasing a story, Colleen can be found petting cats and dogs, listening to podcasts, swimming or watching true crime documentaries.

Senior Editor

Jake joined Community Impact in the summer of 2018 to launch the Bay Area edition. Today, he also is editor of the Pearland-Friendswood edition. Before CI, Jake was a reporter for a daily newspaper in southern Wisconsin, where he covered everything from city councils to school boards to cops and courts. He even wrote a weekly column about video games, a hobby he still enjoys. In his freetime, Jake likes to spend time with his wife, Montaya, and two girls, Arcadia and Embry; play the bass, guitar and keys; play Dungeons & Dragons; write fiction and world-build; and longboard.