I’m a freelance journalist based in Portland, Maine and Portland, Oregon.

Previously, I covered City Hall for the Portland Press Herald and before that I wrote about reproductive health for Texas Monthly.

At the Press Herald my reporting focused on homelessness, elections, immigration and housing. I also spent more than a year following the family of a victim of the Lewiston shootings. I was awarded first place Maine Press Association awards for my coverage of homelessness and the aftermath of the shootings.

I’m a regular contributor to NPR (My work has been featured on Morning Edition and All Things Considered) and have written, reported and produced podcasts for VTDigger and Vermont Public.

I graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 2021 where I specialized in audio journalism. I received honors for my masters thesis — a print piece — on how abortion providers around the country were preparing for the fall of Roe.

I am passionate about telling the human stories at the core of hot-button social and political issues. Through my reporting I dig into the ways humans fear, celebrate, grieve, heal, and overcome during times of upheaval.

Before becoming a journalist, I worked as a nanny, a farmer, a teacher in the Denver Public School system, and as a volunteer coordinator for a food justice nonprofit in Portland, Oregon. I studied biology in college and I am enthusiastic about incorporating science and data into my reporting.