What I Cover
I currently cover the Midwest, focusing on Chicago and on how policies adopted by the Trump administration are affecting people, businesses and the government. I’m interested in law enforcement, civil rights and veterans affairs.
My Background
I’ve been with ProPublica’s Midwest bureau since 2020, and I’ve been a reporter for nearly 20 years. In this job, I’ve written stories on a range of topics, everything from failing hospitals to lax oversight of the gun industry.
I’m based in Chicago, but I’m on the lookout for stories anywhere in the Midwest. The ripples of the policies enacted in Washington, D.C., by the second Trump administration are far-reaching and will affect people wherever they might live. So we will go wherever the story takes us.
Before ProPublica, I worked for several news publications, with stints from Seattle to Newark, New Jersey. While working for The Seattle Times, I covered the city’s homelessness crisis and other issues closely tied to it, like drug abuse and housing, and the local government’s attempts to address them.
I later joined The Boston Globe’s Quick Strike investigative team. In 2021, we won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series that exposed systematic failures by state and local governments to share information that could have kept dangerous drivers off the road.
