Searchlight, an award-winning nonprofit news organization, produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Searchlight's 50 media partners include every newspaper in the state, as well as radio, TV, and digital outlets. Our stories also appear in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, ProPublica, Native Public Media, The Nation, USA Today, Slate, Indian Country Today, and other national publications.

— Traveled to prisons to revisit death row teens, sentenced to die when as young as 15. First interviewed them in 1980s; returned in 2015 to write about how they'd changed— Conducted extensive face-to-face interviews with condemned inmates; exhaustively researched their lives and legal travails— Resulting stories appeared in The New York Times, Salon, other publications

—Copy editor and guest editor for Grist.org, the environmental news site —Editor of Montana Headwall, a monthly adventure/outdoor magazine—Senior editor for NewWest.org, a digital magazine—Copy editor for the Missoula Independent, Montana's leading alternative weekly—Line editor for Farcountry Press, a Montana book publisher

—Outside Magazine: Responsible for all aspects of editing, working with some of the nation’s top writers —Wired: Edited features about people, trends, tech ADDITIONAL FREELANCE WORK:—Grist (guest editor)—Freelance writer for Outside, Grist, U.S. News & World Report, Audubon, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, SF Weekly, and other publications. Story topics: Everything from a town named Joe, Montana, to the pills that kill your sex life—My short story "Never Say No" was the 2015 "Story of the Week" in Narrative, a leading literary magazine

AT PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: —Wrote award-winning stories about police brutality, culture, social justice, unsung heroes (and well-sung ones like Pete Seeger)—Profiled Doris Lessing, Joan Rivers, Kurt Vonnegut, many othersAT SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: —Wrote prize-winning series exposing police brutality in Richmond, California, where white "cowboy cops" fatally shot six black men and sicced dogs on innocent citizens—Covered San Francisco City Hall and presidential primaries; reported from Ciudad JuarezAT MIAMI HERALD:—Worked on award-winning investigative series documenting a decade of police brutality in Miami—Covered Liberty City, an impoverished Black community where race riots claimed 18 lives