Producer
Lead producer for three-part Hulu documentary series, Stolen Youth, working hand-in-hand with director Zach Heinzerling to develop, shoot, and edit the series over three years.
“‘Stolen Youth,’ … is a remarkable work, advancing the prestige true-crime genre’s slow but steady reorientation toward centering survivors.” — The New Yorker
Producer / Reporter
Top 10 Finalist, Best Documentary, 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
The 1999 Women’s World Cup transformed Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, and the National Team into celebrities overnight. They used their newfound fame to launch the world’s first women’s professional soccer league: WUSA, the Women’s United Soccer Association. Three years later, the league folded.
I pitched, reported, and produced this audio documentary project, interviewing many of the star players of the ‘99 Women’s World Cup team.
Editor
For Meadowlark Media, I served as a story editor on several episodes of their new documentary podcast series, Sports Explains the World, including the first episode of the series, The Engineer
WRITER
Honorable Mention, Best American Sportswriting 2019
In October 2017, the United States failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in more than 30 years. A loss to Trinidad and Tobago sealed their fate, but according to players, coaches, commentators, and executives across American soccer, the disaster doesn’t come down to just one unfortunate result.
I wrote this 10,000 feature story that serves as the definitive history of just what went wrong inside the epic American failure to not qualify for the World Cup.
From 2014 to 2019, I worked as a researcher on over 15 Frontline-PBS documentaries, including the Emmy-award winning films The Choice 2016 and Gunned Down: Inside the Power of the NRA
'Your racist side slipped out a little': How the anthem protests split one small town
For The Guardian, I wrote about how Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem protest sowed division and inflamed racial tensions in one small town North Carolina high school.
For The Ringer, I wrote about the DSA activists behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s viral political campaign ad who are looking to build a Netflix of the left.
I also wrote a series of articles exploring under-the-radar figures in American soccer, including stories on Christian Pulisic’s agent, and Mexico’s scout in southern California looking for the best dual-national talent.
In 1972, Melvin McNair hijacked a plane to Algeria trying to find freedom. He eventually found it in France, coaching baseball for low-income youth. But the shadow of the hijacking has followed him his whole life.
This two-part audio documentary will be released in 2023.
