Wrote narrative features, essays, and investigations on how people are navigating global inequalities. Finalist for a Livingston Award for a story about people who steal to be able to afford to live in San Francisco.

Led a team of eight reporters based in three countries, focusing on investigative and narrative journalism chronicling the causes and consequences of inequality around the world. A story on vaccine disparities in the Native American community won a Native American Journalists Association award for health coverage. Wrote internal BuzzFeed News journalism standards guide and led newsroom-wide training sessions.

Edited narrative features, investigations, and breaking news stories for the BuzzFeed News Inequality Desk. Managed four reporters based across North America. Also served as lead editor for special projects focused on vaccination rollout, anti-Asian hate crimes, and trans rights.

Reported stories on election malfeasance in Congo and labor practices in Poland. Reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 forced more than a dozen companies to implement additional safety protocols for food and service workers

Written 34 deeply reported 3,000-9,000-word stories for this online news outlet, focusing on how the criminal justice system impacts lives. A story on a narcotics unit in Mississippi led to a police captain’s resignation in 2015; a story on a Bronx murder helped get a wrongfully convicted man freed from prison in 2017; a 2015 story on abuse in California prisons was cited in a state investigate report recommending reforms; and a 2018 story on a teenager assaulted by two NYPD detectives led five states to strengthen police sexual misconduct laws. A reported essay on why Filipinos turned to an authoritarian president was selected into The Best American Travel Writing 2018. Other stories have covered: cops in Chicago and in California who have kept their jobs despite shooting multiple unarmed people; how racism in once-all-white suburbs has led to police brutality against new black residents; an exonerated man’s struggle to transition into the free world; the code of silence among police officers and prison guards; and the aftermath of a 2011 lynching.Reported and written breaking news stories on deadline, traveling to Baltimore to cover the unrest following the death of Freddy Gray, to South Carolina to cover the shooting of nine black churchgoers by a white supremacist, to Cincinnati to cover a fatal police shooting, to Baton Rouge to cover the fatal shooting of police officers, to Philadelphia and Washington D.C. to cover the 2016 election, and to Houston to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Also contributed an audio story to the Another Round podcast about the criminal justice system in New Orleans.

Taught a writing course called Injustice Narratives, for a class of 15 students, crafting a curriculum focused on how to tell stories that reveal systemic oppressions. Guiding students as they pitched, reported, and wrote a 1,500-2,500 story. Editing first and second drafts, with an aim toward making the stories strong enough to publish in a news outlet.

Co-taught weekly audio workshop course at the graduate journalism school, titled "Telling True Stories in Sound," for Spring 2019 semester.

Wrote 10 5,000-7,000 word cover stories for this New York City alt-weekly. Feature topics have included a detective accused of framing innocent men, a $200,000 heist, a gang war, a divorce broker accused of torture, and a man stranded in a snowstorm for two nights. Won the Emerging Writer Award at the 2014 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction conference for “Prisoner’s Daughter,” about a girl coming to terms with her father’s imprisonment. “Over the Volcano,” a story about a hiker stranded in a snowstorm for two nights, was named one of the nation's "notable" sports features by the editors of Houghton Mifflin's annual Best American Sports Writing anthology.

Wrote 4,000-6,000 word cover stories every five weeks for this San Francisco Newspaper Company alternative weekly, circulation 85,000. A story on how SF police exaggerate evidence gang affiliation among young black residents helped lead to the reversal of teenager's criminal conviction. Feature topics also included an open-air drug market, a public suicide, foreclosures in San Francisco’s black community, the pretrial detention system, a profile of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and faulty homicide investigations by both the San Francisco Police Department and the Oakland Police Department. Also wrote daily blog posts for the Weekly’s Snitch Blog, as well as regular 500-1,000 word news articles for the print edition. Reported stories on criminal justice, social policy, politics, technology, sports, housing, civil rights, and human interest. Certain news stories from the blog also appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, the second biggest daily in the city and the Weekly's sister paper."Public Influence," the story of a man who killed himself in front of hundreds of onlookers, took second place in the 2014 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards' Feature Writing category. Won a California Newspaper Publishers Association Award for "Swoosh Dreams," a 2012 story about a high-profile AAU basketball team and the increasingly commercialized nature of summer league hoops. "Black Street Market," a story about the underground weed trade in downtown San Francisco, was named on Byliner's list of "102 Spectacular Nonfiction Stories from 2012." And "Barred From Freedom," a story about how the pretrial detention system ruins lives, took third place in the 2013 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards' Public Service reporting category.

Wrote long-form cover stories every two months for this Village Voice Media St. Louis alternative weekly, circulation 77,000. Feature topics included a profile of a gang member-turned-politician, urban policy in north St. Louis, a former WWF star's wrestling school, a profile of boxer Devon Alexander, and a hip-hop artist's attempt to escape the violence of his neighborhood. Also wrote daily short articles for Daily RFT blog, covering City Hall beat, as well various other local topics. Filed stories on deadline and broke local political news for blog.Won a National Education Writers Association award and a National Association of Black Journalists award for "Intentional Grounding," a 2011 story about East St. Louis High School's controversial football coach. The story was also named one of the nation's "notable" sports features by the editors of Houghton Mifflin's annual Best American Sports Writing anthology.

Wrote eight long-form stories for this cultural weekly. Stories ranged from 1,800 to 4,100 words and covered topics such as Filipino politics, profiles on famous Filipinos, and boxer Manny Pacquiao’s cultural significance. Travelled to Italy to write a 4,100 word profile on Filipino artist, revolutionary, and former congressman Tomas Concepcion, after the death of his friend, former President Cory Aquino.