I led The Repatriation Project’s visual presentation, including commissioning and editing photography and illustration; researching, editing and licensing archival images; and collaborating on the design of the stories in the project.
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds
A Scientist Said Her Research Could Help With Repatriation. Instead, It Destroyed Native Remains.
I commissioned and edited photography by Rich Joseph Facun, created in Niagara Falls, New York and McIntosh, Alabama. I also pitched and planned the scrolling intro of the main investigation’s layout and collaborated on the design of the story.
The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price.
Workers Across America Break Their Silence on Decades of Asbestos Exposure
Lawmakers and Public Health Advocates Call for Congress to Finally Ban Asbestos
I commissioned and edited photography by Stephanie Mei-Ling in four locations, spanning about a dozen families, and contributed design to each story in the project. Our New York-based story was exhibited at Photoville.
Police Need Warrants to Search Homes. Child Welfare Agents Almost Never Get One.
For Black Families in Phoenix, Child Welfare Investigations Are a Constant Threat
The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever
Mandatory Reporting Was Supposed to Stop Severe Child Abuse. It Punishes Poor Families Instead.
I commissioned and edited photography by John Francis Peters and contributed design.
I worked to weave together photographs and vignettes of four people who were implanted with a medical device on their hearts that was later recalled by the FDA. I commissioned and edited photography by Brittany Greeson, Taylor Glascock and Rachel Bujalski, and collaborated on the design of the story, including a custom opening and pullquotes.
I commissioned illustration by Mike McQuade, researched and edited archival photographs, and collaborated on the design of the story.
I commissioned and edited photography by Haruka Sakaguchi and contributed design.
I commissioned and edited photography by Hannah Price and contributed design.
I commissioned and edited illustrations by Vanessa Saba, researched, edited and licensed archival photographs, and collaborated on the design of the story.
I led and edited a partnership with CatchLight and local fellow Samantha Cabrera Friend that visually commemorated the residents and personal histories of Garfield Park, Chicago. The archive organized during the project and Cabrera-Friend’s photographs were exhibited by CatchLight with the Chicago Public Library and the Garfield Park Conservatory.
More Editing
“Another Place to Warehouse People”: The State Where Halfway Houses Are a Revolving Door to Prison (with Eli Imadali)
Cuomo Set Out to “Transform” Mental Health Care for Kids. Now They Can’t Get Treatment. (with Sarah Blesener)
A Custody Evaluator Who Disbelieves 90% of Abuse Allegations Recommended a Teen Stay Under Her Abusive Father’s Control (with Trent Davis Bailey)
This New Jersey Agency Prioritizes Tourism Over Housing, Pushing Vulnerable Residents Out of Their Homes (with Kriston Jae Bethel)
Public Schools Are NYC’s Main Youth Mental Health System. Where Kids Land Often Depends on What Their Parents Can Pay. (with Holly Stapleton)
A Mother Needed Welfare. Instead, the State Used Welfare Funds to Take Her Son. (with Caitlin O'Hara)
As COVID-19 Ravaged This Iowa City, Officials Discovered Meatpacking Executives Were the Ones in Charge (with Taylor Glascock)
When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested (with Edmund Fountain)
Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It. (with Wayne Lawrence)
HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again. (with Will Widmer)
Hell on Wheels: The Rogue World of One of New York’s Major Trash Haulers (with Ryan Christopher Jones)
What Hospitals Waste (with Tristan Spinski)