I’m a national enterprise reporter for NBC News based in Washington, DC, focusing on federal agencies and their impact on ordinary people. My reporting also has appeared in Esquire, New York magazine, The New York Times, The Economist, Slate, and the Wall Street Journal Asia, among other places.
Previously, I was a staff reporter at The Washington Post, where I was a founding writer for Wonkblog, and a national reporter for MSNBC. Before coming to DC, I spent years reporting in Brazil and Cambodia.
My work has been recognized by the Deadline Club, the New York Press Club, the Online News Association, and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, and I was a finalist for Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. My stories helped spur the creation of new federal laws protecting residents of public housing.
I live in Maryland, just across the DC border. Outside of journalism, my work has been supported by the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, HERE Arts Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.