Gillian Smith, Patch Staff

I believe everyone has a story worth telling and I've been telling those stories for over a decade.

I grew up on Martha's Vineyard (yes, people live there year-round), where I heard all sorts of wild tales, sparking the flame that led me to pursue my bachelor's degree in journalism from the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. I am especially passionate about community journalism and spent the first four years of my career as the editor of an independent newspaper on the South Shore of Massachusetts.

While journalism has taken me on many adventures – from working behind the scenes as a producer at an NBC affiliate to behind the camera as a video producer for Boston University School of Medicine to the front of the classroom as a guest lecturer – it has always been in pursuit of the story.

Have a story to share? I'm all ears: gillian.smith@patch.com