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I am a Seattle-based writer, reporter, producer, and host who has made national award-winning audio documentaries about some of the most polarizing issues in the U.S. I’ve led teams of reporters and producers in the creation of complex, year-long narrative and investigative projects.

My latest project, Lost Patients, launched on March 12, 2024. The collaboration between Seattle public radio station KUOW, The Seattle Times, and NPR investigates the forces that have led people in psychosis to cycle between jails, hospitals, and the streets. It peaked at No. 1 on the Apple Podcasts U.S. documentary chart.

The podcast Outsiders, which I developed, produced, and hosted, chronicled homeless life in one city for more than a year. TIME called it a “narrative feat” and named it one of the 10 best podcasts of 2020. The audio documentary, a collaboration between KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times, was a finalist for a Livingston Award in national reporting.

I served as senior producer on the podcast The Walk Home by KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times, helping develop, report, and produce a national Edward R. Murrow award-winning audio documentary investigating the 2020 killing of Manny Ellis in Tacoma, Wash.

I learned journalism as a newspaper reporter in my home state of New York. My reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the websites of The Atlantic and National Geographic. You can read about my journey to audio journalism here.

Now I mostly create long-term audio documentaries, working at every phase of production: developing pitches, managing teams, tracking down sources and records, reporting in the field, mapping out story arcs, identifying themes, writing scripts, editing, scoring, and mixing.