I’m an investigative journalist from Chicago, where I cover public safety, politics, and movement organizing. Currently, I'm the investigations editor at South Side Weekly.

During the 2023 Chicago municipal election, I was the news editor at The TRiiBE. I led the newsroom’s investigations and political coverage, and broke multiple stories about the candidates and races. From January 2022 to 2023, I was the news editor at the Chicago Reader. I managed more than a dozen investigations, and led a team of three staff reporters and freelancers. Our coverage of the races for the city’s newly created Police District Councils was a 2023 Peter Lisagor finalist.

Before that, I was South Side Weekly’s politics editor for two years. Our June 2020 issue, Chicago Reacts to the Killing of George Floyd, won a Lisagor award for best special news section. My investigation of how the Chicago police used the city's gun-violence prevention center to surveil political protesters won a Lisagor for best in-depth reporting in a community newspaper.

My work has also appeared in Block Club Chicago, In These Times, Slate, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, The Trace, WIRED and elsewhere. Before becoming a journalist, I worked in kitchens, bookstores, bars, restaurants, retail shops, painting crews, science laboratories, and (briefly) a planetarium.