I'm a Baltimore-based freelance journalist with twenty years of experience reporting for national newspapers, magazines, and public radio programs. I am currently finishing Rearranged, a five-episode audio documentary series about music arrangers for Osiris Media.

In 2019, I published the narrative nonfiction book The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide. The book won The New Press's Studs and Ida Terkel Award for “exploring aspects of America not adequately represented by mainstream media.”

From 2010 to 2013, I was a senior producer at Baltimore NPR member station WYPR, where I launched "The Lines Between Us," a year-long multimedia examination of regional inequality. The series won a 2014 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award.

Before I started reporting, I spent seven years as an education researcher, and I've taught at Loyola University, Goucher College, University of Baltimore, Lehman College, and Howard Community College. I hold an M.A. in sociology from American University and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

I'm also a songwriter, guitarist, and producer. My latest bands are Glad Pulses and Disappearing Ink.