SYDNEY MCKINNEY

Location

Durham, NC
Atlanta, GA
Education
    Duke University
    August 2017 - May 2021
    degree
    Bachelor's
    major
    Public Policy
    Duke University
Work Experience
    North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, Co
    journalist
    Atlanta, GA, United States
    July 2018 - present
    company
    North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, Co
    title
    journalist
    overview
    • Built startup organization with a team of five students and three professional journalists designed to provide fact-checking resources for each of 183 congressional races in North Carolina • Compiled a database of hundreds of ‘check-worthy’ claims made by North Carolina congressional candidates for local fact-checkers to choose from, had three claims used by News and Observer journalists in the first week of the project
    Duke Reporters' Lab
    Student Journalist
    July 2017 - August 2018
    Stacey Abrams for Governor
    Financial Analyst
    Atlanta, GA, US
    May 2018 - July 2018
    Atlanta Women's Specialists
    Administrative Assistant
    April 2016 - July 2018
    Georgia 6 Votes
    Employee Recruiter
    May 2017 - July 2017
Fun Fact

I play club soccer at Duke

Skills
Languages
EnglishGerman
Technical skills
Computer Science 101Data JournalismPython Web-Scraping
Skills
Duke Club SoccerFuture Is Now Mentoring Program
Volunteer
    Future Is Now Mentoring
Leadership
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-Duke Chapter,
    Committee Chair
    The Bridge NC
    Head of Content
    NAACP
    Committee Chair
Hobbies
German culture
Travel
Media
Political News/Campaigning
Fashion