What I Cover
I’m following the Trump administration’s effect on average Americans in the context of civil rights protections. This intersects with many federal agencies that oversee issues including the environment, health care, business, housing and more.
My Background
I’m an investigative reporter and author with 20 years of experience in holding powerful figures to account while exposing corruption and injustice. I joined ProPublica in 2019 and became one of the lead reporters on COVID-19, focused on federal failures and rampant fraud. That reporting culminated in the 2022 book “Pandemic, Inc.”
While I’m based in Washington, D.C., I’m looking for stories that reach far into this nation, connecting policies and executive actions to their real human impacts. As the Trump administration signals a broad challenge to civil rights and other protections, I believe it is crucial to document and understand how citizens are affected.
Before ProPublica, I was an investigative reporter for the Dallas Morning News, where my reporting on the state’s outsourced Medicaid system, which benefited companies that systematically denied care to sick children and disabled adults, spurred legislative reforms. My work has resulted in courts-martial, criminal convictions and state and federal criminal investigations, and it has forced lawmakers to invest in social programs. I’ve won some trinkets along the way, too, including a Peabody, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize and two IRE awards.
