Massachusetts Incarceration

I worked on this story while I was at The Boston Globe. I toured four different prison facilities with reporter, David Abel, to see a supervised view of the Massachusetts prison system. I say supervised because our tour was carefully guided by a public relations representative who was present during all interviews and all locations. We…

Spilling Over: An Essay

Spilling Over is a work-in-progress documentary film that documents the human consequences of the 2010 BP Gulf oil spill disaster. I began working on Spilling Over with a team of journalists as a student at UNC-Chapel Hill. When we began documenting the community, I was working mostly with photography and interviews, but as we progressed we…

Dreams of American Healthcare

  As Americans across the country debated the consequences of healthcare reform, the ones who need it most were often left out of the debate as they were in hospitals and unable to leave their homes. This essay explores three individuals and their battle to survive physically, emotionally and financially in the US healthcare system.