California-based reporter + researcher

I’m a freelance journalist and regular contributor to The Imprint and KFF Health News. Previously, I worked as a staff reporter at the East Bay Times and The Mercury News, the daily newspapers under Bay Area News Group, where I covered government, criminal justice, schools, business, health care, and many statewide breaking news events. I covered some of California's biggest natural disasters in recent years and was a lead reporter in the field on much of the Bay Area News Group’s wildfire coverage. My reporting on the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, California, was part of a team reporting package that was honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news.