Photo by John Dean

I’m a Brooklyn-based investigative reporter originally from Northern California. I cover criminal justice and immigration. In my reporting, I focus on holding powerful institutions accountable and explaining how policy impacts ordinary people.

I’m a freelance contributor to The New York Times. Previously, I was a criminal justice reporter at The Baltimore Sun and a city hall reporter at the Concord Monitor.

In Baltimore, I investigated sexual abuse, fatal police vehicle pursuits and sketchy political deals using public records, data, and shoe leather reporting. My stories on police misconduct and law enforcement’s treatment of people with dementia won awards from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association. I was also part of a team that won a public service award for creating a statewide Catholic Church database of people accused of sex abuse.

At The Concord Monitor, a daily newspaper in New Hampshire, I used public records requests to build an award-winning database tracking two decades of police staffing.

I was a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, where I graduated with a master’s degree in 2021. I have a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Georgetown University.

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For Washington City Paper, I followed young Central American women who were set to lose their immigration status in 2018. This cover story explored the potential ripple effects in the D.C. area of ending a perpetually extended “temporary” status.