What I Cover
I currently cover the federal agencies at the center of President Donald Trump’s foreign affairs agenda. Most recently, a colleague and I wrote about how the administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development and the deadly fallout abroad. That work was recognized with an Overseas Press Club Award and George Polk Award. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Previously, I wrote about the Biden administration’s State Department, where top officials appeared to flout U.S. law in order to continue supplying weapons of war to Israel.
My Background
I’ve been a reporter on ProPublica’s national desk since 2022. That year, I published a series of articles uncovering a new junk science in the justice system known as 911 call analysis. The reporting won a George Polk Award, among other honors.
In 2023, a team and I revealed how a set of politically connected billionaires provided lavish gifts and travel to Supreme Court justices over many years. Those stories won the Pulitzer Prize for public service.
I joined ProPublica after working as an investigative reporter at USA Today, where I covered labor, criminal justice and the federal government. There, I won several journalism awards, including the international Livingston Award for our investigation into a U.S. military attack on its own security forces in Afghanistan, which killed dozens of civilians, including as many as 60 children.
My series on widespread labor abuses in California’s port trucking industry was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and spurred a raft of reforms. Before USA Today, I covered courts and hurricanes for the Naples Daily News and other Gannett newspapers.
I co-founded the “Local Matters” newsletter, a weekly roundup of the best investigative and watchdog reporting from local newsrooms around the country. I am also an adjunct graduate professor at New York University’s journalism school. I live in Brooklyn with my family.
