I'm a journalist and fact-checker.

I am a freelance journalist interested in many things, but who finds myself recently drawn toward stories about immigration, health and disability, and the intersection of religion and politics. My work has appeared in Mother Jones and all over Ohio, including The Columbus Dispatch and NBC4 in Columbus, and has been republished in USA Today, LGBTQ Nation, and Them, among other places. My favorite stories to tell are the ones found downstream from decisions and power-plays—where policy meets practice. I also love tackling public records dumps, digging through dusty archives (both analog and digital), and decoding legal policies and procedures.

Most recently, I was an editorial fellow at The Center for Investigative Reporting, where I fact-checked some of the most sensitive investigations from Mother Jones magazine and the Reveal podcast and reported on education, gender and reproductive health, and Christian nationalism, often through a Midwestern or Ohio lens. Prior to that, I was a digital reporter at NBC4 in Columbus, covering K-12 and higher education, local and state politics, state courts, and elections. 

For four years until I left Columbus media, I doggedly covered Ohio State University's lengthy legal battle with men who were sexually abused by Dr. Richard Strauss, during which I forged deep and trusting relationships with survivors, tracked a complex and sprawling series of lawsuits, and uncovered the university's lobbying efforts against bills to hold it financially responsible. In my transition from college journalist to local reporter, I also built on a body of work covering police misconduct, from fatal shootings of civilians to large-scale protests and the closed-door legislating that shielded police from accountability. I plan to continue reporting on both police violence and gender-based violence—and the institutional betrayal that follows—as a graduate student at New York University this fall.