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San Francisco

San Francisco

• Located potential witnesses via online and database research, cold calling and field research, including door knocking, and interviewing possible associates, neighbors and family.
• Interviewed witnesses and others potentially relevant to criminal cases, both in person and over the phone.
• Wrote clear and concise reports that adhere to the department style guide.
• Surveyed former crime scenes. Located surveillance cameras and obtain footage.
• Served witness subpoenas and subpoena duces tecum.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Covered NSA, cybersecurity, internet subcultures, trends, and the Bay Area tech scene.

• National Magazine award nominee (2008). Alicia Patterson Fellowship nominee (2010, 2007).
• Member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto
• Wrote cover stories for Mother Jones, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, and San Francisco magazine.
• Regular contributor to Mother Jones and San Francisco magazine.
• Also published in local, national and international outlets, both online and in print, including the San Francisco Chronicle, MSNBC.com, Utne magazine, the Progressive, Salon, AlterNet.org, the Bold Italic, and.
• Reported on a wide range of topics including subcultures, human rights, politics, and cultural trends.

Provided research and fact-checking for articles covering technology, science, and culture.

• Researched and wrote a book proposal covering criminal justice reform, police brutality, community policing, immigration, the penal system, including best practices locally and nationally.

Researched and reported on militias for documentary television pilot about the growing militia movement in the U.S.Gained access to and interviewed militia leaders, representing a range from underground violent groups to family friendly groups.

• Author of Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things (Wiley, June 2010) a literary non-fiction book about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo military prison guards and their struggles once they returned home.
• Interviewed about Tortured on dozens of radio shows including WNYC, KALW, and KPCC.
• Spoken on the topic of U.S. military torture at conferences, UC Berkeley, Webster University, and live Pop Up magazine event.

• Provided background research, including medical and academic literature review and interviews with academic and business pharmaceutical experts, former drug marketers, and overmedicated veterans.
• Film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was selected for the Sundance Film Festival.

• Helped conceive and launch complete redesign of the magazine, including developing editorial voice.
• Developed story ideas, recruited writers and assigned and edited front of the book and features.
• Editing involved significant hands-on restructuring, rewriting, copyediting, and maintaining cohesive tone.
• Wrote reviews and articles on topics including technology, politics, arts, culture, nightlife, travel and trends.

Managed, hired, and oversaw editorial interns. Overhauled and ran fact-checking department. Legally vetted magazine for libel. Fact-checked and reported feature articles about wrongful conviction, the de Young’s archaeological imports, human trafficking, city politics and feuds between city socialites. Wrote articles about topic ranging from travel.

Recruited writers, developed editorial direction, edited and wrote articles. Developed story ideas and helped establish direction and voice of the magazine.Magazine won South by Southwest People’s Choice award forBest Content E-Zine. Nominee for Utne Awards for Best Online Culture Coverage, Best New Magazine and Best Culture Coverage.

Created fact-checking program. Provided fact-checking and proofreading. Consulted on editorial direction.

• Pitched and wrote stories for magazine and website. Provided additional reporting and research.
• Responsible for all editorial administrative duties. Oversaw budget, handled contracts and facilitated magazine production process, assisted Editor in Chief and managing editor, and handled writers’ queries.

Covered environmental news for daily e-newsletter. Produced best practice policy briefs for website.

• Pitched and wrote articles for the magazine and website.
• Fact-checked and provided additional research for complex feature stories on topics including the sanctions in Iraq, genetic engineering and working conditions in meat packing plants.

Co-edited the 2000 Best of the Bay issue. Wrote feature articles about culture, fashion, and nightlife.

Master'S Of Arts, Journalism, Concentration In Politics

• Masters of Arts program for mid-career journalists. • Completed courses at the Columbia journalism school, Columbia Law School and the.

Copyediting

Ba, Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Honors thesis involving original field research.Phi Beta Kappa, Dean’s honor roll all four years. Graduated with.

Education record