I am the senior data reporter with APM Reports. My work over two decades of journalism has sparked reforms, resignations, firings, criminal indictments and convictions.
My work has triggered changes in six state laws in two states, and inspired a federal appropriation of $30 million per year for several years to pay for training and retention of sexual assault nurse examiners.
Hundreds of my records requests underpinned an investigation that revealed more than 160 babies died in incidents involving nursing pillows since 2007, after which the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to change nursing pillow designs to save the lives of infants. The team created a first-of-its-kind analysis based on public records and internal federal data to tell the story.
I am a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors.
I was the inaugural IRE Rural Computer Assisted Reporting fellow in 2011 through the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
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I currently live in North Carolina.