Previously, I worked as democracy reporter for States Newsroom, a network of news outlets based in dozens of state capitals across the country. I was also a temporary senior news editor with PBS NewsHour and worked as managing editor of Votebeat, a pop-up newsroom covering election administration and voting in 8 states.

My work has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post, The Appeal, CityLab, VICE, Talking Points Memo, and ThinkProgress, among other outlets.

As a reporter covering criminal justice reform, I have exposed unethical conditions in local jails and drawn attention to efforts to make it harder for people with felony convictions to cast ballots. In April 2019, my reporting led the city of Chicago to suspend the use of technology that could listen and record children on ankle monitors without their consent.

From 2014 through 2018, I worked as a political reporter for ThinkProgress. While covering three election cycles, I traveled across the country — from the Alabama coast to the Native American reservations of South Dakota and Nevada — to report untold stories and uplift the voices of marginalized communities. My coverage of voting rights issues has helped to shape legislation and has been cited in federal litigation.

I was selected in 2018 to be an inaugural fellow with Columbia University's new Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights. As a fellow, I wrote about the constitutional amendment that appeared on the Florida ballot in November 2018 to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. Since its passage, I have been covering efforts of the Florida Legislature to reduce the impact of this voter-approved amendment.