I'm a staff reporter at The 74, where I cover major issues in the K-12 education landscape, including chronic absenteeism, English language learners and their families, pandemic recovery, grading practices, the teacher pipeline and paid parental leave for educators.
I entered the field of investigative journalism after spending six years teaching high school English in urban public schools in Boston and NYC. During the pandemic, I began publishing op-eds about my experiences as a teacher. This ultimately led me to Columbia’s School of Journalism where I was a Stabile Investigative Fellow and the recipient of the Fred M. Hechinger Education Journalism Award as well as a Pulitzer Travel fellowship, awarded to the top five students in the graduating class.
My experiences in the classroom — especially surrounding grading practices, equity, and discipline — continue to inform and inspire my work. I am particularly passionate about reporting on the various institutions that intersect with public education, such as the housing, carceral, and child welfare systems. My reporting has exposed wrongdoing by the NYC Department of Education — from fraudulent grading practices to a school busing crisis — and has appeared in the Miami Herald, The Washington Post, Chalkbeat, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Maine Monitor, The Portland Press Herald, CNN Digital, and elsewhere.
Before The 74, I interned on the education desk at the Miami Herald, where I wrote about book bans, homeschooling regulations, the substitute teacher shortage, stagnant teacher salaries, private for-profit universities and student activism around the war in Gaza.