Writing & Reporting
Cleveland scene: “Put-in-Bay: Vice Shitty — A Police Chief, a Florida Strip Club Mogul, a “Bribe” and the Grand Criminal Conspiracy That Didn’t Exist”
A cover story for Cleveland Scene magazine about how How a bartender's tip money and an after-hours spot called "The Disco" led to an organized crime task force investigation on the island of Put-in-Bay.
ACLU: “A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IN PORTLAND”
One of the most read pieces on the ACLU website in 2020, explaining what was happening in Portland during the 2020 protests: “Night after night, since the police killing of George Floyd, people have been taking to the streets to demand an end to racist policing and a new vision of public safety for our community, one that protects the safety of our Black community members. Police in Portland, who have their own history of killings, have been meeting those demands with violent attempts to silence the protests”
Portland Mercury: “Suspect in Portland Hate Crime Murders is a Known White Supremacist”
Broke the news of the identity and white supremacist history of Jeremy Christian who, hours earlier, killed two people and nearly killed another after harassing two young women of color on a MAX train in Portland. A month earlier, I photographed Christian doing Nazi salutes and recorded him yelling racial slurs at a protest in Portland.
Portland Mercury: “A Black Teen Was Run Down in Gresham His Killer Is in a Notorious Oregon White Supremacist Prison Gang”
Revealed that Russell Courtier, a white man who had just killed Black teenager Larnell Bruce was a longtime member of white supremacist prison gang European Kindred. Courtier was then charged with and convicted of a hate crime, in addition to murder.
Cleveland Scene: “Roofie Island: A Summer of Reported Druggings and Rapes on Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie's Party Destination”
Documented a troubling pattern of sexual assault and druggings at the famed Ohio island. Cleveland' Scene’s most read story ever.
Cleveland Scene: “Degenerate, Inc.: The Paranoid and Obsessive Life of a Mid-Level Bookie”
A profile of a Cleveland-area man who went from a gambling addict who owed thousands of dollars to bookies to a successful bookie himself taking bets from other “degenerates.”
Deadspin: “‘I’m Down For Drinks, Laughs, Sex’: The Sexual Harassment Claims That Brought Down Toledo's Running Coach
Documented the real reasons why the extremely successful Toledo track and cross country coach was out of the job, and how the problem was much deeper than administrators pretended they knew.
Deadspin: “‘Dangerously Excessive’: How Washington State Football Confronted, And Didn't Confront, The First Bad News Of The Mike Leach Era”
“Sources and documents obtained by Deadspin recount clashes between training staff and coaches over player safety, and physical—and nearly physical—altercations between coaches and players.”
