Editor of Ag Alert, a national award-winning publication covering California Agriculture, including news, legislation and policy affecting America’s largest agricultural economy. Also served as supervising editor of California Bountiful, a statewide magazine highlighting farms, food, travel and the agricultural bounty of the Golden State.

News editor, mentoring producers and editing television scripts for content, accuracy and style for network later known as Scripps News. Also regularly produced and edited news videos and researched, wrote and voiced in-depth reports of national and international interest. Booked original interview guests for Newsy Tonight, a national prime-time program with a robust following among millennials on cable television and streaming networks.

Editor and mentor for 2019-20 professional journalism fellows working on investigative projects related to the U.S.-Mexico border, including immigration, the environment and water, human rights, drug trafficking and corruption. Program was a partnership of ICFJ and the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers, with project presentations at the Conferencia Latinoamericana de Periodismo de Investigación (COLPIN) in Mexico City.

Contributor for Leafly.com, Seattle-based national site covering legal marijuana industry policy and regulation and politics. Produced in-depth profiles of major public figures including former California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former Mexican president Vicente Fox (as part of a three-part series from Mexico.) Produced other freelance articles published in Reason and National Journal magazines, along with newspaper op-ed pieces on California issues, including water and the environment.

• Senior writer covering California issues and news for The Sacramento Bee and McClatchy Newspapers, including state issues and politics including immigration, criminal justice, the marijuana industry, agriculture, water and the environment. Winner of state and national awards for feature writing, breaking news, explanatory journalism and diversity reporting. Skilled in video storytelling and editing. • Worked as political reporter, covering presidential primary, Democratic National Convention and gubernatorial and congressional races. • Supervisorial experience as Sunday city editor, story editor in state capitol bureau and team leader coordinating writing and reporting on major breaking news. • Author and content provider, including video, visuals and interactive links for blog tracking the marijuana economy, policy and California legalization initiatives in 2010 and 2016. Political blogger for Capitol Alert and McClatchy Washington Bureau’s presidential campaign blog, Hot off the Trail.• Served as Los Angeles Bureau Chief, covering news and culture across Southern California and along the U.S.-Mexico border.• Experienced Latin American correspondent, reporting on assignments from nine countries and writing on topics including gold mining contamination in Peru, visit of Pope John Paul II to Mexico, refugee exodus in Cuba, drug violence in Colombia, civil war in El Salvador and U.S. invasion of Panama.

Praised by Publishers Weekly ( http://ow.ly/AdOK30cRwNV ) for its “journalistic bravura," Weed Land chronicles the earnest roots of the medical marijuana movement in a distinctly California narrative that spans the early days of the San Francisco AIDS crisis through the emergence of the modern cannabis economy. Also critically acclaimed by the New York Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews and The Boston Globe, Weed Land ( http://ow.ly/Aoqz30cRxnw ) was honored as the 2015-2016 'One Book' selection at Sacramento State University.

• Media trainer and visiting professor under consecutive grant awards from International Center for Journalists.• Featured speaker in conferences in Lima and Mexico City (Libertad de Expresión: Nuevos Recursos) on freedom of expression in Latin America. • Taught three semesters of Prensa de Investigación, advanced university courses in investigative and enterprise reporting at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in Lima. Organized field reporting seminars in Andean provinces of Peru on human rights and environmental contamination.• Led professional seminars in reporting, ethics, public records and transparency, including organizing a reporting project investigating local government compliance with a new Peruvian open records law. Helped develop web-based news service and training network for journalists in underserved regions outside of the Peruvian capital.• Worked as a freelance contributor (post-fellowship) from South America for The Miami Herald and the San Francisco Chronicle. Also contributed to Poza de Letras magazine at UPC in Lima and Knightline International magazine of the ICFJ.