Writing and Reporting
For Coda Story:
Silicon Savanna: The workers taking on Africa's digital sweatshops
Germany’s historical reckoning is a warning for the US: Winner of the Online News Association’s 2022 Award for Explanatory Reporting
America’s culture warriors are going after librarians
Between the US and Mexico, a corridor of surveillance becomes lethal
‘I felt like I was a prisoner’: The rapid rise of US immigration authorities’ electronic surveillance programs
When your body becomes the border
Missouri librarians are risking jail time – for doing their jobs
Other clips/newspaper reporting:
California nail salon workers face ruin as pandemic wears on, San Francisco Chronicle, September 2020
Across the Bay Area, confined seniors struggle with anxiety and isolation, San Jose Mercury News, March 2020
Meet universal income’s unlikely Bay Area evangelist, San Jose Mercury News, March 2020
Bay Area housing crisis: living at the intersection of rich and poor, San Jose Mercury News, February 2020
Why one Bay Area county is exploring basic income for foster youth, San Jose Mercury News, January 2020
Why this Bay Area county is betting big on ‘food pharmacies’ to fight poverty, San Jose Mercury News, December 2020
‘It’s like a nightmare you never wake up from’: Bay Area parents wait years for subsidized daycare, San Jose Mercury News, November 2019
In a sign of a changing economy, an iconic Half Moon Bay flower company closes its doors, San Jose Mercury News, November 2019
A looming change in immigration policy is spooking Bay Area families, San Jose Mercury News, September 2019
Why this underground food bank in Santa Cruz County draws hundreds of farmworkers each month, Mercury News, August 2019
Will a Raleigh Jury’s $50 Million Verdict Against Murphy-Brown LLC Force Big Pork to Clean Up Its Act? INDY Week, May 2018
BREAKING: Plaintiffs Awarded $50 Million in Landmark Smithfield Hog Nuisance Case, INDY Week, April 2018
For the Last Five Months, Pastor Jose Chicas Has Been Hiding from ICE Inside a Durham Religious Center, INDY Week, November 2017
Duke Energy Wants to Build a $5 Billion Pipeline Through Eastern North Carolina. They’ll Have to Go Through Marvin Winstead First, INDY Week, October 2017
Fifty-three Weeks of HB 2, and the Day That Gave Us HB 2.0, INDY Week, April 2017
Bill Would Protect Hog Farmers From Lawsuits; Activists and Neighbors Aren’t Pleased, INDY Week, March 2017
How Weather, Chance, and War Brought Twenty Thousand Persecuted Vietnamese to North Carolina, INDY Week, March 2017
Felipe Molina Mendoza’s Story Shows How Arbitrary America’s Immigration System Can Be—And It’s Only Going to Get Worse, INDY Week, February 2017
The Rise of the DIY Abortion in Texas, The Atlantic, June 2014
An Abortion in Chile, Ms. Magazine, July 2014
Texas's Culture Wars Have Created a Public Health Disaster for Women, The New Republic, May 2014
Is This the End of One of the World’s Harshest Abortion Laws? The Atlantic, November 2013