That's me on the right, behind the Equadorian man attempting to enter a Chevron-Texaco shareholder meeting in Houston, Texas.

A Lone Star in Gotham

I am a freelance multimedia investigative reporter based in New York City. Please visit the pages on the right to explore my work and resume.

As a 2010 Soros Justice Media Fellow I am spending a year co-producing Deportation Nation – an online publication that examines the increase in immigration enforcement that targets so-called “criminal aliens.”

My recent work includes a January 2010 cover story, “Cracked,” for The Texas Observer with support provided by the Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund. The accompanying video report played on Democracy Now.

I am a 2008  graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where as a fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism I co-produced the award-winning multimedia package, Business of Detention, which exposed the outsourcing of immigrant detention.

My background as a reporter includes four years as the news director for KPFT-FM in Houston, Texas, which was voted Best Radio News in 2004 by editors and readers of the Houston Press. In addition to producing daily coverage of city, state and regional news, I interviewed more than 25 men and women on Texas Death Row. In 2005, I helped coordinate Pacifica radio’s national coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

I have also reported for PBS, BBC, NPR, CBC, FSRN, Air America, Indymedia, The Indypendent, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Republic, The Texas Observer, NACLA: Report on the Americas, Mother Jones and the New York Times.

In addition to reporting, I teach investigative techniques, radio and multimedia production, and reporting 101. I have designed curriculums and taught at Seton Hall University, People’s Production House, Project Row Houses, the Allied Media Conference and with the Houston Indymedia Center.