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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

My published stories can be found here.

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

In 2021, I broke the news of the University of Florida’s decision to bar a medical doctor from testifying on the efficacy of masks in litigation against the state. After my coverage, which also first revealed an accreditor investigation, the campus reversed its decision for the doctor and changed its overall policy.

I was a lead reporter on college campuses as workplaces as the pandemic tore through higher education. My coverage found widespread burnout and disillusionment among higher-education employees, including tenured professors. I also reported deeply on campus policies, including hybrid-work rules and parallel policies for vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

The politicization of campus activities was a common thread throughout my reporting. I dug into how the nation’s partisan divisions consumed public-college boards in 2020. The following year, those tensions emerged with the headline-grabbing tenure case of Nikole Hannah-Jones. I also broke news on flare-ups at Carnegie Mellon University after the January 6 riots, as well as scrutiny over speech at public colleges.

Narrative journalism was a staple of my work at The Chronicle. I wrote a feature-length story about four campuses shutting down in March 2020, as well as the story of Irving Pressley McPhail’s presidency at Saint Augustine’s University and subsequent death from Covid-19. My reporting on life during the pandemic on college campuses emerged in a 24-hour snapshot published in March 2021, and I covered the excitement and fear of move-in at the University of Kentucky.

Additional feature stories and investigations are below.