I am the health care and general assignment reporter for The Maine Monitor, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news outlet published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. I primarily write about addiction, mental health and access to care.

Prior to joining The Monitor in April 2023, I was the health reporter for the Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine. As a 2021 Data Fellow with the USC Center for Health Journalism, I spent six months investigating how the opioid crisis has affected Maine children and families for my series, “Legacy of Pain.” That included several months of work to gain access to the state’s prescription monitoring program, which no member of the public had ever done before.

I also covered the COVID-19 pandemic, including how rural communities struggled to access testing and vaccines; how extreme staffing shortages at the region’s largest hospital and only trauma center forced it to temporarily fold its trauma program; and how burnout and increasing hostility toward health care workers is forcing many out of the profession.

I began my career at The Lakes Region Weekly (now Lakes Region Now), covering nine towns in southern Maine. My time at the weekly spanned the first year of the pandemic and I covered a range of issues, from local government and school matters to broadband access and Black Lives Matter demonstrations. I reported on a controversy involving a local elected official who had allegedly made a racist comment during a public Zoom meeting. I was able to confirm that town officials edited the comment out of the official video record and that the same selectmen sent a series of emails containing racial slurs a decade earlier. This led to a citizens' petition to recall the selectmen and his eventual resignation; the town manager left soon after. In 2021, the Maine Press Association named me the best young journalist for my work.

Previously, I started and edited an online newsmagazine called Grit Weekly and was an editorial fellow at KCRW Berlin in Germany. I’m also a semi-regular contributor to Wellesley College’s alumnae magazine.

I earned a B.A. in International Relations-History from Wellesley College and won the senior prize for distinction in IR-History for my honors thesis on the modern sociopolitical history of Iraq. I spent a semester abroad studying Arabic in Rabat, Morocco, and was a Fellow at the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles and now live in Portland, Maine, with my rambunctious lovebug of a dog, Pepper.

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