I’m an award-winning reporter and producer based in the Bay Area. My work has been published by the New York Times, Reveal, NPR, Mother Jones, Snap Judgment, the California Report Magazine, the World and other outlets.
Right now, I’m a staff reporter at the Food and Environment Reporting Network, where I cover labor rights and climate equity in both audio and print. My investigation into human trafficking in the US sheep industry was a 2024 National Magazine Award finalist. Before that, I was a senior producer at WorldAffairs, a global politics show co-produced by World Affairs with KQED, and a reporter at KALW, where I covered public health and climate equity in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities. I cut my teeth as a reporter and occasional host at KYUK, where I covered public safety and climate change in Western Alaska’s indigenous communities. My work there won seven statewide journalism awards, including Best Investigative Reporting in 2018.
My reporting has been funded by the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship, the IWMF Adelante Fellowship, the Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship and other outlets. I graduated from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where my thesis won the Reva and David Logan Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting.
Before I became a journalist, I sold eye patches in San Francisco and taught sex ed in Namibia. In a past life, I wrote children’s stories for American Girl.
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