Sample Work

The Washington Post, Washington, DC (2025):

• Haitians found a haven in Maryland’s poultry industry. It’s now in jeopardy. – The Washington Post

• Crime hotspots targeted, encampments cleared, as feds expand D.C. push – The Washington Post

• Mass overdose in Baltimore tests progress of prevention efforts – The Washington Post

Capital News Service, Annapolis, MD (2024-2025):

• Red Line funding survives in tight budget year, but some other transit goals are on hold – CNS Maryland

• Maryland homeless services are nervous about federal funding – CNS Maryland

• Loss of federal funds could leave migrant children in the lurch – CNS Maryland

• Maryland lawmakers target the tranquilizers behind recent overdose deaths – CNS Maryland

• Fearing ICE raids, Delmarva immigrants mostly stay home – CNS Maryland

• Police drones are flying over Maryland. Will state lawmakers regulate them? – CNS Maryland

• Legal gray areas hinder police watchdogs – CNS Maryland
  • Note: Along with my classmates in an introductory data journalism course at the University of Maryland, I spent the better part of fall 2023 attempting to gather records related to Maryland’s new police accountability boards: county-level entities introduced as part of the state’s response to the murder of George Floyd. Once our class had collected records from every county and county equivalent in the state, our professor tapped me to build a story around them. With some early fact-finding help from a colleague at the Captial News Service’s Annapolis Bureau, I reported and wrote this piece in my limited spare time – a project that involved multiple early morning trips to Ocean City District Court to watch a Worcester County prosecutor argue their case for charging three people with felonies for submitting police misconduct complaints containing relatively minor factual errors.

Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN (2024):

• Sugar industry pays for House trips to help safeguard subsidies (startribune.com)
  • Note: As a reporter with the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, I served as part of the data investigations team that generated leads from a decade’s worth of congressional sponsored travel disclosure forms. Howard Center editors later asked me to lead a small team responsible for investigating the overrepresentation of nonprofits tied to the American sugar industry among sponsors of travel for members of Congress and their staff. I served as the primary data analyst, researcher and writer for this piece, which the Howard Center co-published with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

InvestigateWest, Seattle, WA (2024):

• Washington prisons delayed nearly a third of all inmate release dates last year, costing taxpayers millions – InvestigateWest (invw.org)

• In a rural stretch of Washington, a ‘constitutional sheriff’ and his growing volunteer posse provoke controversy – InvestigateWest (invw.org)

Delaware Public Media, Dover, DE (2022-2023):

• Charges dropped against man with severe mental illness, but questions remain about Delaware’s psychiatric care system | Delaware First Media (delawarepublic.org)

• Housing advocates anticipate an undercount in latest survey of homelessness in Delaware | Delaware First Media (delawarepublic.org)

• Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware grapples over leadership | Delaware First Media (delawarepublic.org)
  
  
• House Republicans walk out, block bond bill over Seaford charter amendment | Delaware First Media
  
  
• Drug users and healthcare providers grapple with how to identify, treat Xylazine withdrawal | Delaware First Media
  
  
• Laurel manufactured home community without potable water struggles with language barriers | Delaware First Media
  
  
• Kent County Levy Court places moratorium on utilities-scale wind farms | Delaware First Media
  
  
• Community workshop on Seaford biogas facility underscores tensions with environmental activists | Delaware First Media
  
  
• Rising housing costs squeeze airmen, retirees at Dover Air Force Base | Delaware First Media
  

PubliCola News, Seattle, WA (2020-2022):

• A Sexual Misconduct Investigation at a Rural Sheriff’s Department Highlights Gaps in State Police Oversight Laws – PubliCola
  • Note: This story led to the resignation and decertification of former Okanogan County Sheriff’s Detective Isaiah Holloway.

• Barriers to Access, Changing Drug Trends Hinder Jail-Based Treatment Program – PubliCola

• Closure of King County’s Only Work Release for Women Raises Gender Equity Questions – PubliCola

• How Reforms for Off-Duty Police Work Died on the Vine – PubliCola

• Sweltering Temperatures and Minimal Preparation Left Washington State Prisoners Struggling to Cope with Heat – PubliCola

• As Vaccine Deadline Nears, Negotiator In Charge of Police Bargaining Leaves City – PubliCola

• Critics Say Bombastic Podcast that Replaced Police Union Newspaper Represents Strategic Shift at SPOG – PubliCola