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I'm a narrative investigative journalist based in the Southeast U.S. 

I’ve got a track record of leading projects that create change. My work has led to state law and local policy changes, resignations of officials and a federal investigation. I’ve received accolades from the Headliners Foundation, Texas Managing Editors and the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.

I started my journalism career in Denton, Texas, where a housing series I broke led to a state law change and a federal inquiry. After three years in Denton covering everything from housing to business, nonprofits, healthcare and restaurants — and executing changemaking investigations — I joined the Dallas Morning News. There I primarily covered transportation, including investigations on the region’s sprawling toll network and paratransit services at Texas’ largest transit agency. In 2025, I joined McClatchy’s North Carolina investigative reporting team.

Interests/specialties: Housing, business scams, transportation, health, disability, incarceration, equity, accountability reporting.

Featured work

Narrative investigations, longform features and accountability reporting.

The Dallas Morning News •

Texas car accident victims could have a harder time recovering damages under legislation

It was just after 9 a.m. and Devyn Dally was wondering why she hadn’t received the usual “goodmorning” text from her husband, Clint, when she heard a knock at the door.

Two sheriff’s deputies told her Clint, who worked in the oil field, had been on his way to a job site
outside Midland when he was hit head-on by a frac engineer who fell asleep at the wheel. Clint died in his car, where he was trapped, 30 minutes later.
The Charlotte Observer •

Records show CATS bans don’t keep dangerous riders away from buses and trains

When Oscar Solorzano stabbed another passenger aboard the Charlotte Area Transit System’s LYNX Blue Line train in December, he wasn’t supposed to be on the train at all. He’d been banned from using CATS transportation a few months earlier.

But violent riders flouting bans is a common occurrence on CATS, according to the transit system’s own records from the last two years.
The Dallas Morning News •

NTTA files $8.6 million in suits targeting businesses over unpaid tolls

A monthslong Dallas Morning News investigation has uncovered a little-known program
created by the North Texas Tollway Authority that
allows the region’s only public toll operator to sue small business owners for tens to hundreds of
thousands of dollars for unpaid tolls that sometimes are erroneous or unproven in state court, and
then seek tens of thousands more in attorney fees.

Rolling investigations

Award-winning investigative series that sparked change.