I’ve been making audio stories professionally since 2010. I also teach and research radio journalism.
Most recently, I helped develop and produce a five-part podcast series focused on the internet for Public Books and contributed to the KALW series Sacred Steps, which explores religion and social justice.
From 2011 to 2014 I was a staff producer with the history-focused public radio show BackStory.
I got into audio thanks to War News Radio at Swarthmore College.
A selection of other freelance work is available below.
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans — the mentally ill, the disabled, the morally suspect. Now, a few states are trying to figure out what they owe to the program’s survivors. (2016, Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting)
Rose Brooks was sterilized against her wishes under Virginia's 1924 Eugenical Sterilization Act. Now, Virginia is offering monetary compensation to survivors of the state eugenics program. (2015)
Indonesia's pesantren are religious schools devoted to training students in Islamic thought and law. In the city of Yogyakarta, one pesantren is run by, and for, transgender women. (2014)
Only ten percent of the inmates in Monrovia's Central Prison have been convicted of a crime -- the others are awaiting trial. Many have been locked up for years without access to legal aid. A new program aims to tackle the backlog. (2011)
Tens of thousands of Ivorians have fled fighting between supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo and president-elect Alassane Ouattara. Many have crossed the border, seeking safety and shelter in Liberia. (2011)