Published Works

Professional news organizations:

The Lever

• California’s Crypto Champion
• The Lobbying Surge Behind San Francisco’s Robo-Taxi Mayhem
• Rise Of The Robotruck Lobby

The Warhorse

• ‘A Violent Transition’—Mental Health Care Lacks Military Cultural Understanding

Los Angeles Times

• Cryptocurrency coverage
  • Gavin Newsom’s awkward crypto timing
  • Emails reveal Sam Bankman-Fried’s courtship of federal regulators
  • A young crypto billionaire’s political agenda goes well beyond pandemic preparedness
  • Congress’ leading crypto skeptic is a Southern California congressman
  • ‘Bachelorette’ contestant’s firefighter dad has retirement locked up in bankrupt crypto lender
• 2022 Midterm Election coverage
  • Some Nevada Democrats blame party infighting for defeats
  • Nevada Democrats in tight races turn to a trusted ally, the ‘Reid machine’
  • Why is the Senate race between J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in red state Ohio so close?
  • In Ohio, Trump mocks Senate candidate J.D. Vance as he rallies for him
  • In Pennsylvania, Trump predicts GOP victories in midterms, teases another White House run
• Jan. 6 committee coverage
  • Secret Service knew of plans for violence 10 days before Jan. 6 riot
  • Trump plan to declare election victory ‘premeditated,’ committee says
  • Why the Jan. 6 Committee handed out a criminal referral to a former California law professor

Dateline NBC

• A 3,000-word nonfiction narrative about an unsolved murder in Arcata, Calif.
  • Mother of slain Humboldt State University student Josiah Lawson continues fight for justice four years after he was stabbed to death at college party

CalMatters

• Four-part series on how California officials handled election misinformation
  • How GOP used misinformation, partisan news sites to flip California House seats
  • State worked with social companies to remove election misinformation
  • California tackled bad jokes, cybersquatting to protect election
  • How election officials fought fiction with fact
• 2020 Election coverage
  • As Election Day neared, conflict in Bakersfield between Trump and BLM groups intensified
  • Pro-Trump caravans draw crowds and concerns
  • Voters flood election offices with last-minute questions
  • For Native Americans, voter outreach is by both wi-fi and radio
  • My vote wasn’t going to affect the outcome
  • He wanted Bernie for president so he didn’t vote

Associated Press

• Contributing reporter byline:
  • ‘Just shocked’: A town reckons with charges in Capitol riot
  • Inauguration sows doubt among QAnon conspiracy theorists

Lost Coast Outpost

• In a #MeToo Moment for the Yurok Tribe, Alleged Victims of Former Executive Director Javier Kinney Come Forward to Tell Their Stories After What They Describe as Years of Tribal Inaction
• Addicted: One Man’s Path to Sobriety After Nearly 30 Years of Struggling With a Heroin Addiction.
• The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Habitually Censors Critical Social Media Comments. Can It Really Do That?
• Humboldt County in the First Days of the Pandemic: What 2,000 Internal County Emails Tell Us About the Early Response to the Rise of COVID-19
• Once Drowning in Unresolved Reports of Abuse and Neglect, Local Child Welfare Services Department Says It’s Clearing Out Backlogged Cases
  • Folo: A Backlog of Nearly 300 Cases of Child Abuse and Neglect is Now Down to 10 Thanks to Policy Changes, Additional Employees and the Hard Work of Child Welfare Services
• Accused of Over-Prescribing Opioids and at Danger of Losing Her License, Local Doctor Takes Fight to State Medical Board
• Held at Gunpoint, Ziptied and Locked in a Trailer: A Local Security Guard Tells His Tale of Being Held Up During a Cannabis Heist
• The Librarian and the Cop: Struggling to Serve Eureka’s Homeless Population on the Streets and in the Stacks
• Remembering the Dead: The Dia de los Muertos March from Fortuna to Eureka Highlights Mexican Culture and Remembers Deceased Loved Ones
• Supreme Court Says the Homeless Can Sleep Where They Please When No Shelter Space Is Available. So What Does that Mean for Humboldt?
• Members of the Community Gathered on the Longest Night of the Year to Remember the Lives of the People Who Died on the Streets
• Humboldt County’s Population Shrank by Nearly 1,000 in the Last Fiscal Year, According to Recent State Estimates
• A New Year Brings New Laws: A LoCO Round-Up of What’s Coming in 2020
• HUMBOLDT KINGMAKERS: Here’s Who is Forking Over Big Bucks to Help Trump, Bernie and the Rest of the 2020 Presidential Hopefuls
• Marcelli’s Restaurant Spanned Five Decades and Four Generations and Will be Closing Friday Evening
• Who Was Trudy Barton? The Rio Dell Woman, Who Talked to Everyone but Was Known By Few, Died Last Weekend
• Proposed Food Stamp Reforms Could Cut Assistance to 1,200 Humboldt Residents, County Estimates
• HSU Enrollment is Down by Over 1,000 Students and Expected to Keep Falling for Years
• Humboldt County Growers, Manufacturers Show Out Strong at the 2019 NorCal Cannabis Cup
• Humboldt’s County’s Election’s Office, a Transparency Pioneer, is About Ready to Buy New Voting Machines
• Local Nonprofit Gets Grant to Build Portable Shower Facility for Homeless Folks; Trailer Should Hit Streets Later in the Summer
• In Midst of Unusual Marine Mammal Die-Off, Humboldt State Team Surveys the Coast and Looks for Answers
• LOCKED DOWN: Humboldt County School Administrators and Police Prepare for the Unthinkable
• LOCKED DOWN: What’s It Like When Your School Goes on Lockdown?

North Coast Journal

• Digital Nomad: A Bipolar Man’s Slow Slide into Homelessness in Humboldt 
• Draft Housing Element Calls for Drastic Solutions to Humboldt’s Housing ‘Crisis’ 
• Town Hall Focuses on Need for Transitional Housing
• St. Joseph Hospital Donates $2 Million to Jumpstart HSU’s New Nursing Program
• The Housing Games : A lack of student housing causes a countywide rental crunch, enriching landlords and often leaving tenants with nowhere to go

Mad River Union

• Arcata, county look at ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• HSU welcomes new president
• New president selected for Humboldt State
• Suspected pig killer enters not guilty plea

Student media

The Lumberjack: Humboldt State student newspaper

• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/02/04/me-too-comes-to-humboldt/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/01/22/40-adults-charged-with-marijuana-possession-since-legalization/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/01/25/university-administration-failed-to-notify-students-of-white-supremacists-on-campus/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/01/31/no-more-opioid-deaths/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/03/13/breaking-no-justice-for-josiah-yet/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/03/12/j4j-protests/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/03/07/dissecting-the-dead/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/02/27/its-for-funsies/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/02/25/break-that-wall/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/02/13/blotter-bytes-and-the-rolling-count/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/02/18/blotter-bytes-2/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/01/28/arcata-police-building-bridges-and-breaking-down-barriers/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2018/11/14/music-review-no-te-va-gustar-oh-but-you-will/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2018/10/26/cultural-appropriation-is-not-culture-appreciation/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2018/11/06/midterm-2018-races-to-watch/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2018/11/29/a-budding-industry/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2018/12/12/donation-drive-for-migrant-caravan/
• https://mcc.humboldt.edu/sites/default/files/ct_f18_final_.pdf
• https://thelumberjack.org/2018/12/12/mass-shooting-threat-at-csun/
• https://thelumberjack.org/2019/01/14/fafsa-payments-remain-unaffected-during-government-shutdown/
• Opinion Pieces:
  • https://thelumberjack.org/2018/10/19/hold-the-praise-for-the-robber-barons/
  • https://thelumberjack.org/2018/10/10/kavanaugh-confirmation-should-encourage-midterm-voting/

Interviews about my work

• Californians faced the naysayers and voted in historic numbers this election. CalMatters interviewed 54 of 58 county registrars and found the mail vote experiment saw few glitches, little drama and might provide a blueprint for future elections across the country.
• https://www.khsu.org/post/housing-games-student-journalists-investigate-crisis#stream/0
• https://weather.com/science/environment/video/starbucks-inside-yosemite-sparks-outrage