Slate’s What Next, 2024
“Is It Too Late to Escape ‘Forever Chemicals’?”

Texas Public Radio’s Twenty-Four Seven: A Podcast About Caregiving, 2023
“What Caring Looks Like When There Is No Cure”

Apple News Today, January 2022
“In Conversation: How One Journalist Helped Her Dad Die”

APM’s Terrible, Thanks for Asking, April 2021
“A Good Death” 

KCRW’s Life Examined, February 2021 
“An Intimate Account of a Medically Assisted Death”

Maine Calling on Maine Public Radio, February 2021
“Assisted Death: Maine’s Death With Dignity Act & The Story of One Man’s Choice to End His Life”
(read the story)

CBS News, May 2018
An interview about our investigation into the global supply chain of fentanyl and its rise to become one of the world’s deadliest and most profitable narcotics. (read the article)

Bloomberg TV, May 2017
In the aftermath of November’s election, there was the sense in many East Coast circles that it wouldn’t take long for the voters of Middle America to regret their decision to put Donald Trump in the White House. Seven months later, we’ve found few signs of such remorse. (read the article)

NPR/KPCC’s Take Two, September 2016
Two weeks, 11 states, 3,041 miles, 15 buses, 17 drivers, in-depth conversations with more than 100 people. How we reported the Bus To November and what we saw, heard and learned along the way. 

Charlie Rose, December 2015 and again and again

CBS Minnesota, July 2015
WRKO  Boston, July 2015
A boom in youth shooting teams yields a boon for the gun industry. (read the article)

NPR/KPCC’s Take Two, March 2015
States are slashing college budgets and raising tuition, leaving students and families to shoulder a bigger share of the burden. (read the article)

Marketplace, July 2014
On the unaccompanied child migrant crisis and the logistical nightmare of sending 57,000 of them back home to Central America. (read the article)

NPR/WOSU, All Sides with Ann Fisher, Dec. 2013
An in-depth look at the state of abortion access and related legislation nationwide.

NPR/KPCC, Take Two, July 2013
I join host Alex Cohen to discuss my trip to the Texas-Mexico border, where I uncovered a growing market for black-market abortion drugs that’s come stateside — notably, to flea markets in Texas — as lawmakers push legislation that could make it too expensive or logistically impossible for most clinics in the state to remain open. (read the article)

Bloomberg TV, Money Moves, April 2013
On what we know about the Boston Bombers so far.

C-SPAN, Washington Journal, March 2013
I discuss states’ abortion laws and national trends following North Dakota’s passage of a so-called heartbeat bill, which bars abortion past 6 weeks, and respond to telephone calls and electronic communications from viewers.

CNN, Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien, July 2012
MSNBC, The Cycle, July 2012
Bloomberg TV, July 2012
I discuss my Bloomberg Businessweek feature that explores the growing gap between rich and poor in the U.S. and highlights the latest research on income inequality and social/economic mobility, which shows that the more unequal a society is, the greater the likelihood that children will remain in the same economic standing as their parents. (read the article: Poor Forever: Connecticut’s Ribbon of Hardship)

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AWARDS

How I Helped My Dad Die
> American Society of Magazine Editors, National Magazine Awards, essay/criticism (finalist), 2022
> Ball State University, National Writing Award, 2022
> Los Angeles Press Club, Southern California Journalism Awards, medical/health, 2022
> Association of Health Care Journalists, Excellence in Health Care Journalism, consumer – large (second place), 2022

What Happened When I Bought A House With Solar Panels
> The Deadline Club, New York City Chapter of Professional Journalists, magazine personal service

Unsheltered in the Land of Plenty
> Los Angeles Press Club, Southern California Journalism Awards, commentary/magazines, 2019

Deadly Chinese Fentanyl is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
> Association of Health Care Journalists, Excellence in Health Care Journalism, business (third place), 2018

The Coyotes and the Banks: How U.S. Finance Giants Are the Conduit for Profits in the World of Human Smuggling
> New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards, investigative, 2016

Regulating Away Abortion: How State Governments Are Running Providers Out of Business
> Livingston Award, finalist, 2013

Poor Forever? Connecticut’s Ribbon of Hardship
> Society of the Silurians, magazine reporting, 2013
“…For her sensitive and finely-tuned piece on income inequality and its ramifications on social mobility. …it chronicles two families as they struggle to move up the financial ladder against great odds. She poignantly brings to life the reality of the growing gulf between rich and poor.”

Boston bombing victim in iconic photo helped identify suspects
> Newswomen’s Club of New York, spot news, 2013

Newswomen’s Club of New York, best new reporter, 2012

National Press Foundation, Feddie reporting on federal rules and local impact, 2012

National Women’s Political Caucus, exceptional merit in media award