I’m a journalist and communicator based in Fort Worth, TX. At the Fort Worth Report, I cover the expanding higher education landscape in Tarrant County and how that intersects with the economy, local and state politics and students’ aspirations. at the Fort Worth Report

Prior to coming back to my hometown, I wrote about the City University of New York and the people who make it work for Clarion, the publication for the Professional Staff Congress, the union for CUNY faculty and staff. I was also a public radio reporter at NPR member stations, KUHF in Houston and WABE in Atlanta.

My stories have exposed health and safety issues plaguing CUNY campuses, from a massive pipe burst at Bronx Community College to a rat infestation at York College in Queens. I’ve covered the effects of a strict state immigration law, and the politics of a tri-state water dispute in Georgia. In Houston, I helped launch a daily public affairs call-in show, and I initiated the station’s participation in the crowdsourced reporting project, the Public Insight Network.

For a weeklong series about a new state immigration law, I won “Best Series Reporting” from the Georgia AP Broadcast Association, and more than a dozen of my articles for a union paper have won regional and national awards, including stories about CUNY alumni’s role in pivotal civil rights events to university inaction on the years-long NYPD surveillance of Muslim students at Brooklyn College.  

I’ve reported for National Public Radio, The New York Times, Newsday and the public radio stations in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Hartford and New York.