writing:
“The History My Family Left Behind.” A gun, a lynching, and an exodus from Mississippi. The Atlantic, (print and digital).
“Burying a Burning.” The Atlantic, (print and digital).
“Funk Music Taught Me How to Be an Environmentalist.” Harper’s Bazaar.
“A Month of Paid Leave Was Transformative for My Workplace.” Teen Vogue.
“The lie of the storm.” Columbia Journalism Review.
“The problem of ‘casting calls’ for sources.”Columbia Journalism Review.
“Homebuying as a single Black woman is hard. No one told me it’d be terrifying.” The Lily.
radio:
The Experiment Podcast: Fighting to Remember Mississippi Burning
FRONTLINE’s Un(re)solved, Episode 4: The Hope
NPR segments:
Marketplace, Overcoming fear as a first-time homebuyer, May 2021
Marketplace, “It’s going to take a while for people to come back,” September 2021
Here & Now, Children Are Being Criminally Charged As Adults In Mississippi, November 2019
Here & Now, How a month-long paid break transformed an office and its employees, March 2022
The Takeaway, The Critical Work of Black Women in the Democratic Party, August 2020
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting episodes:
editing:
I run Scalawag’s “pop justice” column on how popular culture warps our understanding of the justice system.
I’m the Managing Editor of The Margin, a nonprofit outlet centering the people and places most affected by environmental injustice in the United States.
additional skills, services:
newsletter writing/curation
sensitivity reading/review
newsroom consulting
investigative journalism talks, workshops, curriculum