Check out some of my best work.
Wisconsin Watch
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Nuclear power once gutted this rural town. Not all support its return.
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Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert
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Wisconsin high schools want to offer more college classes. First, teachers must go back to school.
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At one Wisconsin university, nearly half the students are still in high school
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This Appleton school wants to prepare students for skilled trades. It hasn't been easy.
Houston Landing
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‘Not where we want to be’: Aldine ISD students, staff struggling under district leadership
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‘This school district has failed him’: Trans Katy teen drops out after gender policy passes
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Why North Forest residents, HCC leaders fought a controversial flood relief plan — and won
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Fritos for lunch, Skittles for dinner: Many HCC students can’t get fresh meals on campus
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HCC had big plans for a $30M natural disaster training facility. Why wasn’t it built?
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These Houston school boards have few members from lower-income areas. Here’s a big reason why.
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Help wanted: Many HCC international students scramble for work, but few get it
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‘Hurts my Hispanic people’: As Spring Branch ISD unveils budget cuts, community fears impact
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‘Had to do something’: How Houston-area students are taking on conservative school boards
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Hundreds of Pasadena ISD students graduate high school with a college degree. Here’s how.
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First day of school comes with mixed student emotions after Texas took over Houston ISD
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We toured 4 overhauled Houston ISD schools this week. Here’s a look inside.
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HCC cancels student trip to London, citing fears of Trump immigration crackdown
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Parts of Humble ISD don’t have a local resident on the school board. Could that change soon?
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‘Pray I survive’: CenterPoint customers bracing for days more without power after Hurricane Beryl
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Interest in HCC’s most popular degree is plummeting — and that’s by design
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CenterPoint has a $2.2 billion plan for avoiding another power outage disaster. Will it help?
Freelance & miscellaneous
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A student’s death reshaped Texas school safety, but many states lack similar laws
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Michigan lawmakers feast and fly for free, but the system for tracking freebies is broken
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25 Michigan lawmakers who took the most freebies from lobbyists
My work’s impact
I obtained a student’s meeting recording to reveal the real reasons why a college canceled their trip abroad. I also revealed that they didn’t plan to reimburse students for their preparation costs.
The story pushed HCC to change course and reimburse roughly three dozen students thousands of dollars. A student said the story was “vital” in that outcome.
When I started asking the Flood Control District’s questions about a controversial project locals were rallying against, spokespeople slow-walked me until they axed the project.
A spokesperson told me they were working hard behind the scenes to shut the project down before responding to me.
Residents in the affected community gathered that night to celebrate the outcome.
After I found that Katy ISD revealed the gender identities of 19 transgender students to their parents, students used my report’s findings in a federal Title IX complaint alleging Katy ISD discriminated against these students.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation.
My reporting informed colleges about a pot of money that’s going untouched.
A spokesperson at Southwest Wisconsin Technical College told leaders, “this surprised me, especially because we recently had someone ask whether there was financial support available for high school teachers who want to become qualified to teach dual enrollment — none of us knew about this particular grant… This seems like a resource we should explore further and share more broadly."
My reporting detailed how some Carlton residents were nervous that the sale of local farmland might be making room for a data center.
The data center developer scrapped its plans several months later, citing the concerns from locals.
Over a dozen policymakers and politicians attend a live event I hosted, where they listened to dispatchers discuss potential fixes to the local staffing shortage.
Employees got to speak about the changes they wanted to see directly to people who make the decisions.