I first joined NPR in 2014 as a Kroc Fellow. I then worked as a producer on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, Here & Now, and Hidden Brain.

From 2018-2021 I filed stories for NPR from Pittsburgh on the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the grand jury investigation of sexual abuse in the Pennsylvania Catholic Dioceses, the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential election.

In 2022, I returned to NPR headquarters as a contract editor on national news magazines including All Things Considered and Weekend Edition.

Editing

As an editor at NPR, I pitch stories at news meetings, edit host scripts, fact-check interviews for accuracy, and guide producers in making edits for time and clarity. These are a few highlights.

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  • NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe and New Hampshire Public Radio’s Lauren Chooljian dig into the challenges of regulating the addiction treatment industry, and the threats Chooljian, her family, and her editor faced due to her reporting.

    This conversation aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition on June 25, 2023. Listen here.

  • NPR’s Don Gonyea talks with author Barbara Butcher about her decades long career as a death investigator in New York City. Butcher explains the factors that investigators consider when determining the manner in which someone dies. But despite gruesome details, Butcher says the job often showed her the beauty in the living world.

    This conversation aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition on June 17, 2023. Listen here.

  • NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson’s song of the summer is MUNA’s queer liberation anthem “What I Want.” He says he loves the song’s defiance and sense of community.

    “Dancing in the middle of a gay bar, being yourself - that's still a powerful statement, and it's still couched in just these big, joyous hooks.”

    This conversation aired on NPR’s All Things Considered on June 26, 2022. Listen here.

  • NPR’s Michel Martin talks with Our Children’s Trust Chief Legal Counsel Julia Olson about a youth-focused legal strategy to address the climate crisis.

    One of the group’s tentpole lawsuits focuses on Montana, a state that explicitly provides for the right to a clean environment in its state constitution.

    This conversation aired on NPR’s All Things Considered on May 28, 2022. Listen here.

Reporting

I’ve reported stories for NPR on a wide range of topics from both Pennsylvania and Vienna, Austria. As a reporter, each story I report is an original pitch. I gather interviews and tape in the field and write my own scripts. These are a few highlights.

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  • What makes a democracy work is that the losing side accepts the legitimacy of an election. Polls this year have shown that partisans on both sides may have trouble accepting the outcome.

    This story aired on NPR’s All Things Considered on November 3, 2020. Listen here.

  • Reporters from swing states share their reporting from Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin ahead of Election Day 2020. The winning path to the White House runs through these key states.

    This episode of The NPR Politics Podcast published on October 3, 2020. Listen here.

  • An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll out this week finds that Americans think misleading information is the biggest threat to keeping elections in the United States safe and secure.

    In this piece, I was talking with a voter as she encountered disinformation in real time.

    This story aired on NPR’s Morning Edition on January 23, 2020. Listen here.

  • Less than a week after a grand jury report found widespread sexual abuse in Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses, a priest and his parishioners reflect on what the news means for the future of the Catholic Church.

    This piece aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition on August 19, 2018. Listen here.

  • Just a few years after an influx of refugees arrived in Europe, some European countries are paying refugees to go back to their home countries. In 2017, Austria announced that it would give 1,000 euros to the first 1,000 refugees who signed up to leave on their own.

    I reported this story as the 2017 U.S.-Austria Journalism Exchange through the International Center for Journalists and the Kuratorium für Journalistenausbildung.

    This piece aired on NPR’s All Things Considered on January 13, 2018. Listen here.

Producing

As a producer at NPR, I pitched, booked, scripted and cut hundreds of interviews on a wide variety of topics. These are a few highlights.

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  • Some people claim that the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia are protected by free speech.

    This episode of Hidden Brain explores how free speech is often used as a defense of racist behavior, and why the motivation behind this argument is not always apparent — even to those who use it.

    This episode of Hidden Brain aired on September 4, 2017. Listen here.

  • As a kid, Lizzie No sang in her church's choir and played the concert harp. Later, she discovered Bob Dylan and started teaching herself his songs on the harp. But she says she wasn't exposed to much folk music in her youth — and she didn't really know if there was a place for her within the genre.

    This story aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition on April 15, 2017. Listen here.

  • After President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, more Democratic women decided to run for office.

    In a roundtable conversation with women in Maryland, NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks about the challenges and hopes these Democratic women have for their country and their party.

    This conversation aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition on March 19, 2017. Listen here.

  • NPR’s Rachel Martin talks with millennials from around the U.S. about what it was like to come of age amid the recession. In this roundtable conversation, millennials shared how the recession has shaped their financial decision-making, and got guidance from a financial planner.

    This conversation aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition on May 29, 2016. Listen here.