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Award-winning audio journalist, writer, and documentary producer.


I specialize in character-driven, investigative stories. My work has received a George Polk Award, a Signal Award, and has been nominated for an Emmy, a Peabody, and a duPont Award. 





Audio

Father Forgive Them The Gallery Red Darqness Meditation State ID Laws Add Extra Scrutiny, Pressure for Trans Voters A Second Life Disabled Worker in Yosemite Says He's 'Going Broke Fast' How the Pandemic Opened the Door for Organizing Bay Area Strippers



Video

State of Hate This Land Our Voices We Followed an Inmate into the Execution Chamber American Insurrection


Print


Faced With COVID, A Desperate Man’s Sobriety, Survival Fell to His Mother When Rehab Center Evicted Him “I Felt Hate More Than Anything:” How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War Schizophrenic Death Row Inmate Is Terrified His Execution Will Get Botched This Man Has Watched 133 Executions. Now He's Next.

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