I reported and produced my first radio pieces at WORT in Madison, Wis., where I volunteered on the afternoon news show. In 2015, I got a job covering health at the NPR affiliate in Indianapolis just weeks before the state announced an HIV outbreak in Austin, Ind. — an international news event that pulled me into years of daily stories, features and investigations on addiction, Medicaid and other public health issues.
In 2018, my station loaned me to NPR’s Science desk where I helped cover the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. During the pandemic, I brushed up on some latent coding skills to dig into state prisons, scraping state data to find potential sources to tell me what was happening inside. My prison reporting led to a departmental investigation into the Indiana Women’s Prison, the end of a harsh lockdown at IWP, the forced retirement of a warden and a wage increase for correctional staff across the state.
Listen (or click to read) to some of my pieces below, many of which aired nationally on shows like All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Latino USA.