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I lead the Spencer Fellowship for Education Reporting, a year-long immersive fellowship for journalists and educators who want to develop and publish an ambitious long-form journalism project that advances public understanding of education.

After spending seven years leading and editing reporting teams at the Boston Globe and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, I returned to freelance and contract work in the spring of 2021. Ongoing gigs include editing and reporting for The Hechinger Report and managing an 8-member education collaborative including the Associated Press, AL.com, The.

'Hope Against Hope' followed a principal, teacher, and family in the post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans schools.Selected as campus-wide read at Tulane University and Macalester College.

Write and edit magazine and radio reports for nonprofit education journalism news service based at Columbia University. Stories published in the Atlantic magazine, Time, the Miami Herald, New Orleans public radio, NBCNews.com, and numerous other media outlets.

Taught “The Kids’ Story,” an undergraduate journalism seminar that scrutinized American inequality—in the education, health care and immigration systems—through the lens of children and teenagers.

Academic year fellowship to report on racial disparities in access to literacy supports. Work published at USA Today, The Hechinger Report, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

New York, New York

Directed award-winning education reporting fellowship at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Set editorial vision, including editing and managing early-career reporters, initiating and overseeing partnerships with publications with more than 25 news organization, including Slate, WNYC, The Atlantic, ProPublica, Buzzfeed, and the Boston Globe Sunday.

Work published in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Slate, the New York Times, the Wilson Quarterly and more than a dozen other outlets.

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