Start Here
I produce daily news segments and special episodes for Start Here. Occasionally, I report, too.
A selection of special episodes I produced for Start Here ...
On the Brink won an Edward R. Murrow award for News Documentary
Labor of Long COVID was a Dateline Award finalist
Solar Opposites won a Covering Climate Now journalism award
A selection of daily news segments I produced for Start Here ...
A selection of my reporting for Start Here ...
Mother Tongue won an inaugural Signal award for Best Writing, Listener’s Choice.
Broken Justice
I co-wrote and co-produced this series.
In 1997, Ricky Kidd was sentenced to life without parole for a double homicide he says he didn’t commit. And, he argues, his court-appointed lawyer is the reason. In the U.S. justice system, everyone has the right to an attorney, even if you can’t afford one. But what happens when your lawyer is overworked, underfunded and unable to do their job? From the PBS NewsHour, a look inside the crisis that is overwhelming Missouri’s public defender system and what it means for serving justice in America.
Broken Justice received an ABA Silver Gavel Awards Honorable Mention.
America, Interrupted
I co-wrote and co-produced this series.
Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, nothing about American life has been normal. More than one million people have been killed by COVID-19 and that number keeps growing. Economies have closed and reopened and closed again. The police killing of a Black man ignited the biggest protest movement in a generation. And a contested presidential election, buoyed by misinformation and conspiracy theories, culminated in an attack on the Capitol and another impeachment trial, deepening already fraught political divisions. America, Interrupted is an original podcast from the PBS NewsHour about the events that have turned our lives upside down and how we’re making sense of it all.
A selection of episodes ...
PBS NewsHour won a Peabody for our January 6th coverage, which included this episode.
Kitchen Sisters
Filmmaker Wim Wenders talks about his early influences — Cinémathèque Française, Henri Langlois, Lotte Eisner — and tells stories of Werner Herzog and the films that have impacted his work.
Ernst Wilhelm “Wim” Wenders, filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, is a major figure in New German Cinema and global cinema. His films include Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, The American Friend, Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, Buena Vista Social Club, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, Pina, Until the End of the World, and many more.
I co-produced this episode.
KPFA
As a First Voice Media Apprentice, I produced and reported pieces and hosted and engineered shows for Full Circle on KPFA.
A selection of my work from KPFA …