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Producing and reporting for WBUR Podcasts, including "Endless Thread," "Last Seen," and several upcoming projects.

Writing and reporting stories about science, health, climate change, the internet and inequality for NPR, WBUR, THE CITY, Southerly Magazine, Hakai Magazine, Massive Science and others. Producer for WBUR Podcasts. Editor for THE CITY's MISSING THEM project to document COVID-19's toll on New York City.

A team of reporters who produce deep accountability- and data-driven investigations into urgent matters of public interest, exposing government wrongdoing, inequality and systemic failures.• Wrote and reported for the Center for Public Integrity’s award-winning series “Hidden Epidemics.”• Wrote and reported for THE CITY’s award-winning project “MISSING THEM.”• Co-developed, wrote and reported the multi-newsroom series “The Mounting Toll of Disasters.”• Co-created a mental health survey for outreach, and participated in multiple engagement reporting projects.• Cultivated diverse sources, including officials, scientists, advocates and marginalized communities.• Used sources, documents, data, and investigative reporting techniques to report and write untold stories.• Obtained previously unpublished data and documents through extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act.• Collected, cleaned and analyzed datasets.• Developed detailed narratives through interviews, personal records, police reports and court documents.• Produced annotated story drafts and worked with fact-checkers and media attorneys.• Worked with editorial, communications and web staff to create social media content and reach a wide audience.

Contributed to the travel and science books Wildsam Field Guides: New England and Wildsam Field Guides: The Moon, writing about the offbeat and out-of-the-way: lobster boats, pepper farms, moon myths and space artifacts.

News magazine co-produced and distributed by NPR, covering breaking stories, politics, science and the arts for a national audience. • Produced series on politics, history, obesity and tech.• Wrote stories on health, guns, natural disasters, inequality and other issues.• Researched, wrote and fact-checked scripts, daily interviews and stories.• Planned and executed field reporting trips in communities across the U.S.• Discovered, pre-interviewed and booked sources, with a focus on diversity.• Led studio control operations during live broadcasts.

A daily news show produced and distributed by NPR, covering breaking stories, politics, science and the arts for a national audience of three million weekly listeners.• Produced segments on breaking news, politics, arts, and science• Researched, wrote and fact-checked scripts and daily interviews• Edited and mixed audio• Discovered, pre-interviewed and booked guests• Tactfully worked with on-air personalities• Arranged, executed and recorded field reporting trips• Led studio control operations during live broadcasts