What I Cover
I am currently reporting on how the H-2A visa program may expand and transform during President Donald Trump’s second term and the potential impact on agricultural workers, farm owners and the supply chains that bring crops to our grocery stores.
My Background
My stories have uncovered a series of preventable deaths that occurred within a prominent transplant center in Tennessee, exposed a powerful utility’s controversial toxic waste disposal practices in Georgia and revealed how a wealthy governor’s family perpetuated a harmful legacy of environmental injustice in Alabama.
My colleagues and I have published “Sacrifice Zones,” a series that examined how toxic air pollution from industrial plants has elevated cancer risk for millions of Americans. I was also part of a team that reported “America’s Mental Barrier,” which focused on the ways that insurance companies interfere with mental health care.
Before ProPublica, I was an independent journalist who published stories in a variety of national publications, including The Atavist, The Atlantic, Time and STAT. I had worked as a staff writer for CNN, Atlanta magazine and the Atlanta alt-weekly Creative Loafing. I also co-founded Canopy Atlanta, a local news organization that pays and trains community members to become journalists.
