writing:
“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 x sensitivity reader contracts:
I’m currently an editor at The Markup, a non-profit outlet covering Big Tech and how its overreaches cause harm.
As Scalawag’s Race & Place editor, I launched two series:
one about grief in the U.S. South.
a series and newsletter called “pop justice” on how popular culture warps our understanding of the justice system.
I was the sensitivity reader for the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Broken Ground Season 5: How a Black community in southwest Memphis and its allies beat the odds and defeated a crude oil pipeline.
As Southerly’s inaugural contributing editor, I led the publication’s first foray into environmental reporting in prisons (here and here).
additional skills, services:
newsletter writing/curation
newsroom DEI consulting
investigative journalism talks, workshops, curriculum