• Covered the Cuyahoga County criminal justice system and Ohio prison system• Produced data analysis demonstrating racial disparities in a local village's traffic ticketing practices• Wrote investigative project about Cleveland police officers handcuffing mentally ill young children• Helped produce the Cleveland team's biweekly newsletter with original content

• Led capital campaign for construction of organization's new offices• Secured funding to launch a summer camp for refugee children• Secured grant to support remote learning for English-language learners during the COVID-19 pandemic• Conducted data analysis showing dramatic impact of organization's education programming on clients' English proficiency test scores

• Used Housing and Urban Development data to show that tenants relying on housing vouchers were being pushed out of gentrifying Cleveland suburbs and into low-income neighborhoods• Analyzed millions of rows of ARCOS opioid purchase data to uncover how one Ohio doctor bought and sold nearly 1.7 million pills over a three-year period. Produced online graphics for the resulting story.• Conducted data collection and analysis for a project that surveyed law enforcement departments across Ohio about their use of results from rape kit backlog testing. Helped coordinate collaboration with newspapers across state to report story, which ran on multiple papers' front pages and won third place in the Press Club of Cleveland's data journalism category.• Was instrumental in producing a data-based story showing construction workers were dramatically more likely to die of opioid overdoses. Subsequently assisted academic researchers who pursued the topic.• Scraped PDFs from the Ohio Department of Commerce data to create a database of wage theft claims, then analyzed that data for an article that won an honorable mention from the Society to Advance Business Writing and Editing.• Produced interactive infographics to accompany articles online• Revived dormant Twitter account and developed an audience of 18,500 followers• Led the newspaper's experiment with using Facebook to advertise and offer sample subscriptions

• Researched domestic and sexual violence in the late colonial era of the Belgian Congo• Made an interactive webpage about immigration and foodways for a final project• As a teaching assistant and grader for two semesters, gave students constructive feedback on writing assignments and taught them to make podcasts.• Analyzed slave trade data and edited computer code in R for professors' projects• Conducted research in French and continued studies in Arabic and Kiswahili

• Wrote reports based on embeds with American troops in some of Afghanistan's most dangerous regions• Reported extensively on politics from Kabul, including both breaking news stories and features• Doubled as a photographer, providing images from both Kabul and patrols in the provinces• Created interactive charts in Tableau and maps in Mapbox to accompany story packages.

• Wrote both day-to-day community stories and data-based investigations on subjects including missing children and Arlington Cemetery's plans to cut down old-growth forest for the Arlington Mercury.• Reported on the war in Syria spilling into Lebanon on location in Tripoli. • Translated complex and nuanced articles about events in the eastern Democratic Republic ofthe Congo for openSecurity. • Created interactive timelines exploring the history of legendary ships and weapons programsfor the US Naval Institute using Knight News Lab's Timeline JS. • Translated an entire website of more than 19,000 words from French to English. Receivedpositive feedback from client.

Database editor and education reporter at Military Times. Set up and analyzed databases, usually obtained from government sources, to produce hard-hitting investigative work, including articles on disparities between service branches in sexual assault prosecutions. Set up a database containing more than 6 million records of all Defense Department contracts signed between 2004 and 2011, and produced a "scraper" that generated a regularly updated database of major Defense Department contracts with descriptions based on announcements posted the Web. Ran Military Times' annual poll and analyzed the esults to produce a multi-page story package, complete with graphics. Also produced a series of "Best for Vets" surveys that ranked employers and schools based on policies for military or veteran students and workers.

Covered Navy and Marine Corps acquisition issues with a focus on energy/total life cycle costs, surface ships and Marine Corps ground vehicles and operations. Included extensive coverage of Congress, particularly the budget process. Wrote pieces analyzing the crash rate of Shadow drones and rollover accidents for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles using data gleaned from Wikileaks.

Worked primarily as a politics reporter, covering city government, the state Legislature from a local perspective and congressmen from southern New Mexico. Produced an average of two stories per day, including pieces on immigration, teen pregnancy, and political ethics. An article involving the latter won an award from the West Texas Press Association, which described it as a “hard-hitting investigative piece on charges against a city councilman.”