Writing

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In 2024, I reported on efforts to halt the construction of a new police training academy in Dallas, which opponents have labeled “Cop City Dallas,” for Luke O’Neil’s Welcome to Hell World newsletter:

Stop Cop City Dallas

In 2023, I reported on the unforgiving economics of making comics—and cartoonists’ efforts to change them—in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe, a sprawling online conversation about the physical and mental toll of making comics:

Comics won’t just break your heart

In 2021, I wrote about a public health program known as “molecular HIV surveillance” for Undark magazine. Since 2018, the CDC has funded a nationwide program to track HIV outbreaks by analyzing genetic sequence data. But it’s controversial among advocates for people who live with HIV:

Advocates Challenge the CDC’s New Effort to Track HIV Spread

In 2019, I reported on the financial relationships between faculty at the University of Missouri and large agricultural companies like Monsanto/Bayer. That investigation, which won two Missouri Press Association awards, was published in multiple outlets, including The Counter, The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Columbia Missourian:

In 2019, I wrote about James T. Scott, a black man who was lynched by a white mob in 1923, and a newly published book that chronicled the author’s personal and family connection to the crime. The two-part series was published in the Columbia Missourian.