An Oregonian through and through, Makenzie has always been taking pictures and telling stories.

Raised in Bend, she keeps returning to her hometown but keeping her fancy degrees to relatively good use as she joined the Bend Bulletin in 2018 as a newsroom assistant then quickly contributing her own articles, travelogs, and eventually movie reviews.

Currently, she is the Digital Content Manager for wholesale kite company In the Breeze, also based in Bend, but she continues to freelance with the Bulletin and to anyone else who will listen.