Amanda Carver Blue, The New York Times, 2025
Chrishona Hodges's Life Sentence, Chicago magazine, 2025
Artist Caroline Kent, WBEZ, 2025
An Uncountable Diaspora, Rolling Stone, 2024
Trapped at O'Hare, Rolling Stone, 2024
The year Mahbuba found her voice, WBEZ, 2023
What $500 Means to Zinida Moore, Chicago magazine, 2023
The Violin Doctor, Chicago Magazine, 2023
A Bride Too Soon, Rotary Magazine, 2024
Can Abby Pucker turn Chicago into a global arts city?, WBEZ, 2024
Breaking Bread, WBEZ, 2024
Cartoonist Paul Noth, WBEZ, 2024
Jake Troyli makes his mark, WBEZ, 2024
Of Line and Memory, WBEZ, 2024
Mindy Segal's Millennial Sixth Sense, WBEZ, 2024
Migrant mental health, Fast Company, 2024
Juli Kaufmann's Solidarity Economy, Fast Company, 2023
The stars of the school concert? A rock band of migrant teens, WBEZ, 2023
Pregnant migrant women in Chicago, isolated and afraid, WBEZ, 2023
Arabic Language Camp Connects Children to "The Memory of the Country," WBEZ, 2023
Out of the woods, University of Chicago magazine, 2023
The First 12 Weeks: New to the country and new to motherhood, WBEZ, 2023
The First 12 Weeks: The only queer parents in birthing class, WBEZ, 2023
The First 12 Weeks: La cuarentena, WBEZ, 2023
The First 12 Weeks: A WBEZ series, 2023
Crisis at Columbia St. Mary's, Milwaukee Magazine, 2023
Pilots take the abortion battle to the skies, WBEZ, 2022
Afghans Arrive at Refugee High, WBEZ, 2022
Post-Roe Wisconsin, Milwaukee Magazine, 2022
Afghans Seeking Asylum, WBEZ, 2022
Still Standing, Milwaukee Magazine, 2021
Nourishment, Milwaukee Magazine, 2022
Welcome to Refugee High, Chicago Magazine, 2017
The Evolutionary, Milwaukee Magazine, 2020
Burger Queen, Milwaukee Magazine, 2021
The Wolf Next Door, Milwaukee Magazine 2021
The Hamilton Handoff, Chicago Magazine, 2016
Can Jerryon Stevens Be Saved? Chicago Magazine, 2017
The Improbable Encore, Chicago Magazine, 2017
Dawoud Bey, Chicago Magazine, 2019
Art House, Milwaukee Magazine, 2020
The Unity Awards, Milwaukee Magazine, 2021
Dispatches from the Rap Wars, Chicago Magazine, 2016
Kerry James Marshall, Chicago Magazine, 2016
Pariahs Amid the Rainbow, Chicago Reader, 2012
The Betty Awards, Milwaukee Magazine, 2020
Hannibal Burress, Chicago Magazine, 2014
Jose Lopez's Last Stand, Chicago Magazine, 2014
Deep Pocket Town, Chicago Magazine, 2012
My Grandmother's Chicago, Chicago Magazine, 2018
The Fight for East Chicago, Chicago Magazine, 2016
The Unconventional Art Star, Chicago Magazine, 2013
Honors, Awards, and Grants
2022 Pattis Family Foundation Award Shortlist
2021 Studs and Ida Terkel Prize
2018 Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists
2018 Awesomeness Foundation Grant
2018 City Regional Magazine Award, Best Multi-Platform Storytelling
2017 Peter Lisagor Award, Best Feature Story
2015 Beardstown Award, Chicago Tribune
2014 Chicago Tribune Leadership Award
2012 Peter Lisagor Award, Best Non-Deadline Reporting