Work Experience

Abrams Reporting Fellow
ProPublica, National Team

July 2021 - Sept. 2023

Spent 18 months reporting on Columbia University’s decades-long cover-up of sexual abuse by an OB-GYN. The story, also published as a podcast, resulted in student protests and a campaign to hold Columbia accountable.

Reported on the lack of transparency around federal COVID-19 funding; felony disenfranchisement among communities of color during the 2022 election; and Instagram scams, resulting in Meta disabling hundreds of fraudulent accounts.

Did media appearances on MSNBC, Democracy Now!, Cheddar and other national and local shows to promote published work.

Research Fellow
Documenting COVID-19

Feb. - July 2021

Used public records to report on how local health agencies were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stories published in CalMatters, Detroit Free Press, the Fresno Bee.

Investigative Fellow
Columbia Journalism Investigations

Sept. 2020 - Feb. 2021

Pitched the story that became the focus of a seven-part investigation, produced by an international consortium of journalists, about the criminal networks facilitating illegal timber trafficking in the Amazon rainforest.

Developed sources, tracked trade data, filed public records requests, examined Peruvian forestry documents and backgrounded importers and exporters.

Reporting Fellow
Pulitzer Center

Sept. 2020 - March 2022

Reported on the environmental and health impacts of Florida’s phosphate mining industry. The story was published by Undark Magazine in March 2022.

Freelance Reporter
New York Times COVID-19 Data Tracker

May - Sept. 2020

Helped report and collect data for the New York Times COVID-19 data tracker, part of the coverage that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.  

Intern
CNBC Investigative Unit

Jan. - May 2019

Produced long-form stories for TV and online. Identified and pre-interviewed sources. Conducted research using Nexis, Pacer, LinkedIn, other databases.

Freelance Reporter

Took an independent reporting trip to Puerto Rico to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Wrote for VICE, NBC News, the Detroit Free Press. Freelanced for City & State, City Limits, amNewYork, Gotham Gazette.

Education

M.S., Journalism, Columbia University
Fellow, Toni Stabile Center
2018 - 2020

B.A., Journalism, University of Central Florida
2006 – 2010

Awards

2019: NAHJ, Rubén Salazar Scholarship

2019: Deadline Club Scholarship

2018: National Press Club, Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism

2014: New York Press Association 2nd Place, Best Niche Publication, Rockaway Times

2012: SPJ Region 10, 2nd Place, Health Reporting

2012: C.B. Blethen Award Chronicle Staff, Deadline Reporting

2011: SPJ Region 10, 3rd Place, Social Issues Reporting