Senior reporter at MIT Technology Review
I cover artificial intelligence, including the companies creating it and a recent focus on the ways AI meets policing, war, and surveillance.
My work has appeared in MIT Technology Review, The Washington Post, FRONTLINE PBS, ProPublica, The New Republic, Documented, WNYC, and other outlets. My story about AI's energy footprint is a finalist for the 2026 National Magazine Award. The documentary I co-reported with FRONTLINE and The Washington Post was nominated in 2024 for an Emmy. My work has led to state-level reforms.
I'm a graduate of CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
Tech ReviewBroke news that the Pentagon plans to have AI companies train models on classified data, with new details on how AI models might be used in military targeting decisions.
Tech ReviewAn in-depth investigation into AI's energy footprint, which sparked disclosures from major companies and was named a finalist for the 2026 National Magazine Award.
Tech ReviewReported for the first time that the prison-tech company Securus is using generative AI to surveil phone calls from inmates and ICE detainees, that it trained its model on calls made by thousands of unconsenting Texas inmates, and that the company cultivated close ties with Trump-appointed regulators. Cited by prison rights groups drafting federal policy.
Tech ReviewA deep dive on companies making AI music generators, shared by Longreads.
Tech ReviewReporting on how a police-tech company offered departments a way to track people while skirting laws banning facial recognition, prompting a response from the ACLU.
Tech ReviewReported that the Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to create content it shares with the public, as the White House circulated doctored images supporting its mass deportation effort.
FRONTLINE / Washington PostAs a reporting fellow at FRONTLINE, I reported how Discord's self-moderation policies and prioritization of privacy contributed to pockets of extremism on the platform, and played a role in the 2023 classified intelligence leaks. The work produced a front-page Washington Post story and an Emmy-nominated documentary.
ProPublicaAn investigation into the trucking industry's successful lobbying effort to leave crash victims with smaller payouts.
DocumentedA data-driven investigation exposing a wage theft crisis faced by immigrant workers in New York's horse racing industry. The story led to reforms a month later, and was recognized by The New York Times as among the best local journalism of 2023.
WNYC / GothamistMapped why patients in New York City had to travel long distances to receive care for opioid use disorder, contributing to the state's expansion of pilots delivering methadone at home.
The New RepublicProbed a shadowy anti-union organization on a well-funded mission to decimate public sector unions.
HakaiThe story that got me started in journalism: why a Burmese fisherman was forced to spend six months at sea during pandemic border shutdowns, and what it says about the broken industry behind our seafood.
Before journalism, I worked in the sustainable agriculture movement, often writing about the social and environmental harms of agribusiness. I attended Tufts University as a first-generation college student and studied economics, and later got my master's from CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in 2022, where I focused on business and economics reporting.
Outside of journalism I play in bands that perform for exceedingly small audiences. In 2024, I became a certified EMT.