I'm a journalist, audio producer and podcaster.

For over a dozen years, I’ve been producing radio and podcasts, and writing. My special interests include international relations and health, but my interests vary widely. I enjoy helping people sound like their authentic selves.

Please visit the projects page for samples of my most recent work.

Building Equity: Diversifying Construction on the South Coast

South Coast Working, May 2022

Construction work is one of the few careers left in the US where a person can make a good living without a college degree. However, it’s also one of the few fields available to high school graduates with a work force that’s still predominantly white and male. So what will it take for women and people of color to get a bigger piece of the pie, and to land union jobs? I reported, scripted, edited, mixed, and hosted this episode of the podcast South Coast Working, a project of the UMass Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center.

CONFLICTED: The Process Driving Jaw-Dropping Shows

3 Clips, October 15, 2020

I produced this episode of 3 Clips, a podcast from Marketing Showrunners that dissects great podcasts to figure out what makes them work. This episode takes the listener inside CONFLICTED from Message Heard - a chatcast about the War on Terror, hosted by a former Al Qaeda bomb maker turned British spy, and his best friend. I selected the excerpts from CONFLICTED, pre-interviewed the guest, prepared the host, and mixed and mastered the episode.

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Midwifery and Maternal Health

LADYPARTS, April 21, 2019

In this episode of my podcast Ladyparts: Taking a Wide View on Women's Health, two midwives from different backgrounds make cases for how better integration of midwifery into the US medical system could help lower the country's high rate of maternal mortality, cut down on unnecessary interventions, and make birth a more dignified, healthier experience for moms.

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Under the Gun

New England News Collaborative, September 7, 2017

This episode of NEXT, the radio show about New England won a 2018 award for best news/public affairs program from the Public Media Journalists Association. In Vermont, suicides account for 89 percent of gun-related deaths. Why is that percentage so high, and what’s being done to lower the risk? (Interview produced by me) And we explore the wide variety of accents that color the speech of New Englanders and how those sounds are changing (produced by me). Finally, we visit a summer camp with a colonial flair (reported and produced by me).

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For Victims of Sex Trafficking, A Therapeutic Court Provides A Way Out

Side Effects Public Media, July 7, 2016

A handful of courts have started to treat people charged with prostitution differently from the rest of the system. Their goal is not to punish the women, but to help them heal from the trauma that often lead them to the streets and holds them there. The CATCH program in Columbus, Ohio, supervised by Judge Paul Herbert, runs one of the most comprehensive programs in the country for victims of sex trafficking. Program graduate Stephanie Rollins, a victim of childhood sexual assault and a former drug user who sold sex to support her addiction, tells the story of her transformation.

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Kansas Town Takes Dental Care To School

NPR News, August 21, 2015

A lack of preventive dental care for poor children is a national problem. Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, which cover children from low-income families, both pay for dental services. But fewer than half of children and teens enrolled in those programs received a preventive dental service last year.

The school district in Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., is among a few hundred across the country that offer oral health care at school.

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Teens and Illegal Guns: Access

March 1, 2012

In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days. In 2012, Y-Press journalist Andy Yang, age 17, visited the maximum-security Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility for males to figure out just how easy it is for teens to obtain guns. As Radio Coach at Y-Press, I arranged the prison visit and interviews, edited, and produced the story.

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