What Happened to the McStays?
ABC News
I wrote and produced this narrative series about a family of four that in 2010, disappears from their home in a suburb of San Diego County. When investigators search their home, they find the family’s two beloved dogs unattended outside, rotting food left around the house and clothes strewn across the floor. Did the McStays leave of their own accord, or did something far more sinister happen?
Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery
ABC News
I wrote and produced a series that took a new look at a fifty-year-old mystery. Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with The New York Times, allegedly to deliver evidence documenting unsafe conditions at the plant. Two reporters who covered the Silkwood story in 1974, have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate: Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew. Now, hear newly-discovered investigative tapes, deathbed conversations and long-awaited interviews reexamining what happened that night.
Start Here
I produce daily news segments and special episodes for Start Here. Occasionally, I report, too.
A selection of special episodes I wrote and produced for Start Here ...
Winner of the Edward R. Murrow award for Hard News
A Dateline Award finalist
A selection of daily news segments I produced for Start Here ...
Winner of the inaugural Signal award for Best Writing, Listener’s Choice
Winner of the Edward R. Murrow award for News Documentary
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.
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 …