I’m an award-winning reporter and producer based in the Bay Area. My work has been published by the New York Times, Reveal, NPR, Mother Jones, Snap Judgment and other outlets.
Right now, I’m a staff reporter at the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN), where I cover labor rights and climate equity in both audio and print. My work has won statewide and national recognition (most recently a 2025 James Beard Award), and my investigation into human trafficking in the US sheep industry was a 2024 National Magazine Award finalist. I am also the “voice” of FERN’s audio division, including our new show, Buzzkill.
Previously, I was a senior producer at World Affairs, a global politics show co-produced by World Affairs with KQED, and a reporter at KALW, where I covered public health and climate equity in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities. I cut my teeth as a reporter and part-time host at KYUK, where I covered public safety and climate change in Western Alaska’s indigenous communities. My work there won seven statewide journalism awards, including Best Investigative Reporting in 2018.
Before I became a journalist, I sold eye patches in San Francisco and taught sex ed in Namibia. In a past life, I wrote children’s stories for American Girl.
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