GRAM SLATTERY

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experience
REUTERS Santiago, Chile
Sept. 2015 Reporter
Reporter in Chile, covering economic and general news; occasionally operate out of Argentina
Have written features with exclusive content on topics ranging from copper mining to real estate
to investigations into Dirty War-era crimes
Cover the finance ministry and central bank; have scored interviews with CEOs, senators, judges
Co-won Reuters reporter of the week for the Americas for series of stories about green shoots in
Argentinas rebounding economy
Syndicated in The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many other major outlets
Summer 2015 Reuters Global Journalism Intern
One of three interns chosen for Latin America

Summer 2014 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Boston, MA

National News Intern
Pitched and wrote on breaking news, politics, policy, and justice, accumulating over 60 clips
Wrote in-depth on Honduran immigration in Chelsea, Mass., a USDA immigrant program in
Maine, a pipeline in the Berkshires, and the Boston marathon bombing trial, among other topics
Cited by the Congressional Research Service, BBC, The Atlantic, Washington Monthly

Summer 2013 THE SANTIAGO TIMES Santiago, Chile

Political Reporting Intern
Reported from debates, campaign headquarters, rallies, and other political events during Chiles
presidential primary season for the nations only (English-language newspaper
Developed campaign contacts, landed exclusive interview with major presidential candidate

Summer 2012 NATIONAL JOURNAL Washington, D.C.

Reporter Intern
Contributed thousands of words daily to 'The Hotline' and 'House Race Hotline, subscriber-
only newsletters aggregating local political news and commentary from across the country
Wrote article on voter ID laws in Pennsylvania for National Journal Daily, as well as briefings
on eccentric political happenings across the country
Conducted frequent research for National Journal's 'On Call' blog

HARVARD POLITICAL REVIEW Cambridge, MA

Nov. 2013- Managing Editor
Jan. 2014 Second-in-charge of content for the HPR, a dynamic 7,000+ circulation undergraduate
magazine, website, broadsheet, and radio show, overseeing a staff of 40
In charge of assigning and editing articles for 40 percent of staff, managing social media
Wrote in-depth features on campus, local and national political issues; featured on Longreads
In Fall 2014, co-hosted a biweekly political radio progam on WHRB 95.3 Boston
2012-2013 Senior Editor
2011-2015 Senior Writer

HARVARD CRIMSON Cambridge, MA

Sept. 2014- Staff Columnist
Jan 2015 Wrote biweekly political column on the politics of Cambridge, New England, and Millennials
2012-2015 Staff Writer

OTHER ACTIVITIES: Harvard International Review (senior books and reviews editor, 2012; staff writer, 2011),
Perspective Magazine (monthly opinion magazine, managing editor, 2012), Harvard Citizenship Advocacy
Committee member and tutor (2011-12)

SKILLS: Eikon, Lynx, and other Thomson Reuters technologies, Excel, PowerPoint, Wordpress, InDesign, all
social media, HTML, LexisNexis, Stata, Photoshop, Pixlr, AP Style
TRAINING: Reuters Boot camp for new hires (New York, September 2015)
LANGUAGES: Fluency in Spanish

GRANTS/AWARDS
2014 Harvard College Research Project Grant, funding for research on environmental politics
2013 Weissman Grant, paid for travel to Chile for The Santiago Times
2012 Institute of Politics Directors Grant, funded housing while at National Journal
Frank J. Cimerol Award for Writing, half of tuition paid for as high school senior at St. Johns
Preparatory School in Danvers, MA, for winning top writing award in class of 350

education
2011-2015 HARVARD UNIVERSITY GPA 3.70 Cambridge, MA
-Honors degree in History, cum laude, High Honors in field, focus on domestic and Latin American
politics, secondary degree in English
-Coursework in History, Comparative/Domestic Politics, Economics, Fiction/Nonfiction Writing,
-Skipper for Harvard Varsity Sailing Team 30 hr/week commitment in fall and spring.
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references

Jill Abramson, journalism professor at Harvard College, political columnist at The Guardian, former executive
editor for The New York Times
abramsonnyc@gmail.com

Rosalba OBrien, Senior Correspondent Chile, Reuters

Rosalba.obrien@thomsonreuters.com
+56 (22) 370 4250
+56 (9) 9818 8538

Darcy Frey, Senior Lecturer on English, Harvard College

frey@fas.harvard.edu
+1 (347) 715-0027

Alexander Burns, political correspondent at The New York Times

alexanderiburns@gmail.com
+1 (917) 838-2039

Ron Fournier, former Senior Political Columnist at National Journal; current Associate Publisher at Crain's
Business Detroit
rfournier@crain.com