I reported and produced my first radio pieces at WORT in Madison, Wis., where I volunteered on the afternoon news show. In 2015, I got a job covering health at the NPR affiliate in Indianapolis just weeks before the state announced an HIV outbreak in Austin, Ind. — an international news event that pulled me into years of daily stories, features and investigations on addiction, Medicaid and other public health issues.
In 2018, my station loaned me to NPR’s Science desk where I helped cover the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. During the pandemic, I brushed up on some latent coding skills to dig into state prisons, scraping state data to find potential sources to tell me what was happening inside. My prison reporting led to a departmental investigation into the Indiana Women’s Prison, the end of a harsh lockdown at IWP, the forced retirement of a warden and a wage increase for correctional staff across the state.
Listen (or click to read) to some of my pieces below, many of which aired nationally on shows like All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Latino USA.
NPR/KHN: As COVID-19 Cuts Deadly Path Through Indiana Prisons, Inmates Say Symptoms Ignored
WFYI/Side Effects Public Media: Chaos At Indiana’s Miami Prison Takes A Toll On Staff
inewsource: Even under pandemic rules, California expects people in long-term care to pay for their Medicaid benefits
WFYI/Side Effects Public MediaIndiana Women’s Prison Willfully Ignorant On Number Of COVID-19 Cases, Staff Say
WFYI/Side Effects Public Media: Former Staff Say Turnover At Indiana Women’s Prison Is Self-Inflicted
WFYI/Side Effects Public Media: As COVID Spikes In Indiana Prison, Inmates And Families Report Lax Protocols
WFYI/Side Effects Public Media: COVID Lockdown At Indiana Women’s Prison Eases, At Least For Now
WFYI/Side Effects Public Media: Indiana Women’s Prison Called “Ticking Time Bomb” As COVID Lockdown Continues
NPR/KHN: Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone
WFYI/Side Effects Public Media: Indiana Requires “High Risk” Prison Employees To Keep Working Amid COVID-19 Crisis
NPR/KHN: Another Cause of Doctor Burnout? Being Forced To Give Immigrants Unequal Care
NPR: Despite Warnings, FDA Approves Potent New Opioid Painkiller
NPR/KHN: Reversing An Overdose Isn't Complicated, But Getting The Antidote Can Be
NPR/KHN: Omissions On Death Certificates Lead To Undercounting Of Opioid Overdoses
NPR: Price's Remarks On Opioid Treatment Were Unscientific And Damaging, Experts Say
NPR/KHN: Indiana's Claims About Its Medicaid Experiment Don't All Check Out
NPR/KHN: Trump Picks Seema Verma To Run Medicare And Medicaid
NPR/KHN: Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio
NPR: Mike Pence’s Health Policy Record Is A Mixed Bag