Olivia has been associate producer at KJZZ, the NPR station in Phoenix, a reporting intern at KNBC in Los Angeles, and an intern at Arizona PBS, where she covered education, the borderlands, and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. She is also a game developer, focused on new ways of distributing news content. She has won several prestigious awards including Emma Bowen Award for Courage in Reporting, First Place for BioTech Science Reporting, First Place for radio features at the Festival of Media Arts. She received her B.A. from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
Beat: and gentrification
Olivia covers local government, especially governmental actions that impact communities of color. She has a special emphasis on gentrification, displacement and issues pertaining to economic mobility in Mecklenburg County. Olivia attends government meetings, covers breaking news and, most importantly, is embedded in historically black neighborhoods that are undergoing transformation and displacement. She is directly supervised and edited by journalists with 35 years of newsroom experience — including experience as business reporters, foreign correspondents, White House reporters, business editors and deputy managing editors.