I'm a Chicago-based reporter, author and journalism instructor specializing in energy, the environment, labor, public health and immigration issues, and the myriad and complicated way such topics intersect.
I aim to show the ground-level impacts of policy, technology and economic developments, including a focus on how the most vulnerable communities are impacted and how they respond through community organizing and other efforts.
Currently I am a lecturer in the graduate program at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University, where I lead the Social Justice & Investigative Specialization and co-direct the Social Justice News Nexus,, a fellowship program that brings together graduate students and professional reporters.
I'm also a staff writer for Midwest Energy News and I write for publications including The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Chicago Reader and In The