Refugees Claim They Were Urged To Lie About Size Of Their Families On Leases
A concerned community member contacted me when a refugee family was being kicked out of its apartment because the lease was inaccurate. The tip turned into a seven-part investigative series that led to local and national changes and earned top honors from the local press club. (Photo: Meg Wood/inewsource)
Police Department Didn’t Need Extra $200K To Implement New Anti-Racial Profiling Law
I dug in to budget documents to poke holes in law enforcement groups’ argument that a new law would be too costly. (Photo: Roland Lizarindo/KPBS)
Why It Took A Month To Fix The Heating System For These Classrooms
I received a tip that students in a low-income part of town were attending class in winter coats because a heating issue took weeks to repair. My reporting prompted an investigation and led to district-wide policy changes. (Photo: KPBS)
Del Monte Fresh Produce fights back over charges of salmonella contamination
Working with my reporting colleague and photojournalist Brandon Quester, I traced a foodborne illness outbreak back to Guatemala and the legal battle that followed. (Photo: Brandon Quester/News21)
I collaborated with data guru Jill Castellano at inewsource to reveal hospitals didn’t always use a COVID-19 emergency tool as the last resort it was designed to be. (Photo: Zoë Meyers/inewsource)
High Numbers of Maternal Deaths Plague Dominican Republic Health System
Investigating an overwhelmed system. (Photo: Lauren Gilger/Cronkite Borderlands Initiative)