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Storytelling

This Boston Globe series by the Spotlight team investigated the corporate greed and financial mismanagement that led to compromised care and patient deaths at Steward Health Care hospitals. This series was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
How I learned to stop feeling so lonely
Tracking San Francisco’s drug overdose crisis
Steward CEO’s globetrotting as company crumbled
A disaster in plain sight: A city locked in fentanyl’s grip
When the floods come: Water is coming for Seaport
MLK Jr.’s unrealized dream on Bay Area’s MLK Jr. Way
When fires create floods: Is California ready for a cascade of disasters?
California’s drought has caused entire towns to sink nearly a foot in one year
How prescribed burns helped curb the Caldor Fire’s rapid growth
Easy Targets? Some Oahu Homeless Ticketed Dozens Of Times During The Pandemic
Case Dismissed: 8 Years, No Conviction And A Honolulu Man’s Life Derailed
Deadly Encounters Database: Police killings and in-custody deaths in Hawaii

Editing

Inside crypto’s scam machines, where cash goes to disappear

This combination of a narrative story and immersive explainer takes readers inside the world of cryptocurrency ATMs, which remain unregulated in Massachusetts, leaving victims with little recourse.

Standards of Care: Nearly 250 patients abused by renowned doctor
Mass. board increasingly protects neglectful doctors
Data tool: See your doctor’s discipline and malpractice history

Spotlight: Standards of Care

This series from the Spotlight team delved into problem doctors and the lack of scrutiny from the state’s board of medicine, which has increasingly protected neglectful doctors over patients. The series, a finalist for two prestigious national awards, included an interactive tool allowing users to search the malpractice, discipline, criminal, and license history of every licensed doctor in Massachusetts.

Residents left in soiled diapers. Calls for help unanswered. What happened when outside operators bought up Mass. nursing homes

Since the pandemic, a group of out-of-state operators, some of whom with troubling track records, went on a buying spree of Massachusetts nursing homes. The quality of care fell dramatically at most of these homes that changed hands, and patients suffered as a result.

Training and workshops

News Hack Arizona was an annual two-day hackathon-style workshop technology- and data-driven journalism. I was one of a core team of five local journalists who planned and facilitated the events for three years from 2016 to 2018.

The San Francisco Chronicle Datathon invited members of the public to engage in a data-driven story pitch event. In another mix of hackathon and learning, Datathon was a space for readers to learn what the data team does and pitch their own data journalism idea.

In April 2023, I led the Hearst Newspapers Data Graphics Storytellers Workshop. It was a two-day event that again combined some interactive learning with a hackathon-style pitch-off. Pitches formed at the workshop have already turned into published projects.

Besides all the workshop stuff, I often participate in mentorship projects and guest lectures.

Community engagement, webinars