12-3-2018
VICE interviewed me for an article about Amazon HQ2’s potential impact on demographic and social changes in New York and provided links to two of my features in the story.
07-26-2018
A Seattle Weekly colleague and I were interviewed by NPR affiliate KNKX about our joint report on three federally funded facilities that house unaccompanied youth in the Puget Sound region.
(Award) Society of Professional Journalists
Northwest Excellence in Journalism 2017
06-2018
I received a first place award in crime and justice reporting for my YES! Magazine article about Seattle’s Block the Bunker movement.
05-29-2018
I was interviewed by NPR affiliate KNKX about my long-form Seattle Weekly article in which I profiled several tech workers on H1-B visas who are stuck in a green card limbo.
03-29-2018
I was interviewed about my Seattle Weekly article on H-1B visa holders in a SeattleLand podcast episode that also featured my reporting.
11-2017
My long-form article about Portland Public Schools’s implementation of a global climate justice course was referenced in Mary DeMocker’s book.
The Solutions Journalism Network
10-16-2017
The Solutions Journalism Network featured me as a panelist in a Twitter chat about covering solutions in rural America.
Women in the World featured my YES! Magazine profile about a minister who is leading the fight for reproductive justice in Kentucky. Refinery 29 also created a video based off of my reporting.
(Book) Censored 2018: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2016-2017
10-2017
My long-form article on Seattle’s Block the Bunker movement was included as one of the top underreported stories of the year in Project Censored’s book, Censored 2018: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2016-2017.
03-20-2017
In this Ring of Fire interview, I talk about my long-form article on Seattle’s Block the Bunker movement and police reform under the Trump administration.
03-15-2017
I was interviewed by KBCS for my long-form YES! Magazine article about Seattle’s Block the Bunker movement.
12-30-2015
My story about San Francisco’s shifting view towards graffiti in San Francisco was featured in a City Lab article.
12-04-2014
In this Go and Glow! podcast episode, I talk about journalism, traveling and switching career paths.
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