Rivers of Oil
I was lead editor of a five-episode podcast that looked at how oil pipelines, from Keystone XL to Dakota Access to Line 3, have come to the forefront of an epic tug of war between society’s reliance on oil and …
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The Protests at Standing Rock
I led MPR News coverage of escalating protests of the Dakota Access pipeline at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota in 2016. Our intensive reporting served not just our region, but was a critical part of NPR’s national coverage. …
Black arrest disparities
I performed data analysis and edited the resulting story of how Black drivers bear brunt of routine arrests by St. Anthony PD. This in-depth, data-driven look at arrests in the community in which Philando Castile was killed by a police …
Minnesota’s Graduation Gap
I was lead project editor as MPR News set out to report on an underreported fact — that Minnesota’s high school graduation rates for students of color rank among the worst in the nation. We spent nearly a year observing what’s …
Betrayed by Silence
I was part of an MPR News team that uncovered a culture of protection for priests accused of sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis (The entirety of that project can be found here). An archbishop would …
Jamar Clark Special Report: Chaos and Community in North Minneapolis
The challenge here was to create long-form contextual programming about a still-developing story involving the fatal police shooting of a black man and the community’s response to it. I landed on a three-part approach that delivered a complete overview: Conflicting …
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Climate Change in Minnesota
We set out to do definitive reporting on how climate change is affecting the state. We ended up with a documentary length radio piece and several web components. In addition to a lead editing role on the project, I produced …
Redistricting Maps
This was a quick turnaround online feature that relied on good preparation to execute successfully. When a court-ordered redistricting plan was announced for congressional and state legislative districts, I wanted to let our audience compare the old maps with the …
Minnesota: Weak on Bullying
Amid several well-publicized suicides that may have been linked to bullying, and a growing national debate on the topic, we wanted to know what Minnesota schools had in place to combat bullying. Turns out the answer in many cases was …
Teaching the World in Minnesota
In the fall semester of 2012 I got to work with a team of University of Minnesota journalism students on what evolved into an ambitious online project on diversity in Minnesota classrooms. Teaching the World in Minnesota looked at how students …