About

I've worked as a reporter and editor for more than a decade. Since 2021, I’ve led accountability reporting on California’s fossil fuel industry at Capital & Main, scrutinizing corporate practices and exposing regulatory gaps in greenhouse gas emissions and pollution oversight. My investigations into state agencies have driven legislative reforms and earned nominations and awards from the California News Publishers Association, the Sacramento Press Club, the Los Angeles Press Club, and the Society for Environmental Journalists, totaling more than a dozen honors.

I've cultivated trust with confidential sources within the government, and by working with climate scientists, I produced and analyzed custom data on projected local climate impacts through 2100. I've refined my science reporting chops as a fellow for the National Science-Health-Environment SHERF program, and as a climate solutions fellow with the Solutions Journalism Network. Currently, I'm learning how to use tools like JavaScript and ArcGIS to enhance my climate reporting.

During 2018 through 2022, I reported for outlets including The Guardian, The Nation, and Type Investigations, where I took on high-stakes investigations into federal immigration policy and policing. My work uncovered how Trump I-era border enforcement policies created systemic chaos on the streets of Texas, and how federal prosecutors used pretrial detention to suppress racial justice protests. I also investigated opaque FBI force data, and examined the environmental tradeoffs and political stakes of lithium extraction in California.

From 2017 to 2019, I reported for the Santa Fe Reporter in New Mexico, where I covered the state legislature, City Hall, the school board, and the police beats. Before that, I reported on corporate polluters, the environment, and civil unrest for LittleSis, Vice News and Al Jazeera.

I've also worked as a full-time digital editor for a nonprofit organization, a job that included writing and editing text as well as refining the company's online brand, and in another role I edited submissions from writers and correspondents for an online news politics website as a senior editor.