Featured Work

When Chronic Diseases Come With Chronic Financial Pressure. For millions of Americans, paying for the treatment needed to manage their diseases can become its own lifelong problem.

For the Well section of The New York Times. November 4, 2024

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‘Grandfamily’ housing caters to older adults raising children. Intergenerational communities are sprouting up as the need grows for homes that suit aging adults and their young charges.

For the Sunday Business section of The New York Times, online and in print. August 19, 2021

Finding a doctor who specializes in senior care is hard. Here’s why. Research suggests geriatricians more effectively manage older patients’ care, but several factors dampen interest in the field.

For The Washington Post’s Health section, online and in print. March 17, 2024 

Medical residents nationwide are unionizing. What does that mean for the future of healthcare? Physicians in training are being squeezed by labor shortages, inflation and long hours. 

For Grid News and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. March 24, 2023

She escaped her husband’s physical violence — but economic ties kept them connected for years. Dialogue around ‘coercive control’ in relation to financial abuse is gaining steam in the US.

For The Guardian and the Fuller Project. August 3, 2023 

What Black and Latina women need to know about dementia. Black and Latina women are caught in the crosshairs of a dementia epidemic, as both patients and caregivers.

For The Washington Post’s Health/Science section. December 9, 2021 

The education of Duke’s Eric Greitens. An ambitious student from St. Louis left a mark at Duke University before becoming governor of Missouri and resigning amid scandal.

With Katie Jane Fernelius for The Assembly. July 28, 2022

Long-term caregiving is crushing women’s finances. These states could chart a new path. Amid a devastating pandemic, caregiving in the United States is emerging as a quiet but massive driver of inequity for women — and for women of color in particular.

For The Lily from The Washington Post. April 27, 2021

How to have trauma-informed conversations with survivors of domestic violence. As clinicians focus on using trauma-informed approaches, domestic violence survivors and advocates are bringing this approach to families and their communities.

For California Health Report. May 23, 2022

Domestic violence survivors often don’t want to call the police. California tries a new approach. A new law could fund alternative responses to domestic violence, making California the first state to support such experiments at scale.

For California Health Report. December 21, 2021

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How landlords dodge eviction bans. Legal aid attorneys, housing advocates and experts say the CDC eviction ban has not prevented landlords from exploiting loopholes in the policy or sidestepping it altogether.

For Big If True. April 29, 2021

BMI is flawed, especially for people of color. Experts say that assumptions, practices and policies based on BMI adversely affect Americans of color by shaping the diagnoses they receive, treatment they access and stigma they face.

For The Washington Post’s Wellness section. May 5, 2021

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Getting divorced in the pandemic is complicated. Orthodox Jewish women face additional obstacles. Already, the task of receiving a “get” could descend into domestic abuse — and the pandemic has dragged out this process for women trying to separate.

For The Lily from The Washington Post. August 3, 2020

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Bay Area artists are struggling more than ever in coronavirus shutdown. Artists have long worked furiously to stay afloat in San Francisco, but the pandemic’s economic fallout is pushing them out.

For the San Francisco Chronicle. May 23, 2020

Breaking News

Man Who Invaded Nancy Pelosi’s Home Apologizes for Attacking Her Husband. David DePape’s federal sentencing hearing was reopened to give him a chance to address the court, but his apology did not persuade the judge to change his sentence.

Stringer for The New York Times. May 30, 2024

California faces another storm onslaught after power outages in Sacramento. A powerful storm system across the state could bring more flooding and outages.

Stringer for The New York Times. January 8, 2023

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3 killed in fresh wildfires in Northern California. In addition to the deaths, the famous Chateau Boswell winery is gone, a community of tiny homes for homeless people has burned, and an untold number of houses are feared lost.

Stringer for The New York Times. September 28, 2020

Narrative Development

A collaboration through nine months, 14,000 words, 36 chapters and a ‘leap of faith.’ I talked with Pulitzer Prize-winners Raquel Rutledge and Ken Armstrong about constructing their braided narrative on two subjects whose lives intertwine in one fatal house fire.

For Nieman Storyboard. July 14, 2023

‘Good versus good’ stories that unravel complex societal problems. I talked with New Yorker writer Nathan Heller about how he followed a year of change in one bellwether San Francisco high school.

For Nieman Storyboard. March 10, 2023 

The Pitch: Landing a “definitive narrative” in The Atavist Magazine. I talked with editor Seyward Darby about what makes a longform pitch catch her eye. 

For Nieman Storyboard. August 18, 2022