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I’m a freelance reporter specializing in abortion access, rural issues, and far-right extremism.
From 2015-2022, I held various writing and editing roles at Mother Jones magazine.
I’ve also written for Wired, The Guardian, The New Republic, Jezebel, Teen Vogue, and Rolling Stone, among others.
Features
Tim Broekema
Them:
LGBTQ+ Couples Are Rushing to Get Married as Trump's Inauguration Looms
While legal experts say that marriage equality is likely safe for now, for many LGBTQ+ Americans — particularly in the South — nothing feels certain.
Adria Malcolm
Mother Jones:
The Rise of the Abortion Cowboy
Dr. Aaron Campbell is part of a growing cadre of abortion providers traveling great distances to provide care.
Hamilton Matt Masters
Them:
Friends of George’s Are Fighting for Drag Freedom
With their art form under siege by Tennessee legislators, the Memphis-based drag troupe took their fight to court — and won.
Darrel Frost
Columbia Journalism Review:
Anonymous Woman
Speaking with the press, an abortion fund worker faces an impossible dilemma.
Mother Jones illustration; Mark Humphrey/AP
Mother Jones: Three Women Accused a Tennessee Legislator of Sexual Assault. He Was Still Reelected in a Landslide.
In the rural South, #MeToo doesn’t mean much.
Allen Breed/AP
Rolling Stone:
In Post-Roe Alabama, the Poor Suffer Most
"In an exclusive excerpt from Becca Andrews' new book 'No Choice,' a young woman navigates the health care system in Alabama, desperate to have an abortion, despite also wanting a child. 'It's a whole different ballgame when you're poor, Black, and pregnant, especially in the South.'"
Robert Nickelsberg/Getty
Teen Vogue:
‘No Choice’ by Becca Andrews Explores the End of Roe and Attacks on Reproductive Rights
Teen Vogue ran an excerpt from No Choice one week before its release.
Shawn Poynter
The New Republic: The Last Abortion Clinic in Knoxville Draws Patients From Hours Away. What Happens If It Disappears?
Tennessee is one of 13 states with “trigger” laws that would fully outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
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Mother Jones and Rewire News Group:
A Week in Alabama After Abortion Was Banned
The state has long lived in a post-Roe world. Now, abortion care workers reckon with how much worse it could get.
Ibrahim Rayintakath
Wired:
They Were ‘Calling to Help.’ Then They Stole Thousands
When my mom fell victim to a phone scam, we learned a painful truth: The explosion of personal finance apps makes it all too easy to target vulnerable people.
Annie Flanagan
Mother Jones:
When Choice is 221 Miles Away: The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the South
While people worry about a world in which abortion access is no longer protected, the women of Mississippi are already living it.
Essays
Angelica Alzona
Jezebel:
I Killed My Southern Accent and a Piece of Myself With It
My voice screamed out my class status and everything I was trying to leave behind, I thought. Now I want it all back.
Tara Jacoby
Mother Jones: I Couldn’t Help But Wonder, What If “Girlie” Shows Did the TV Revolution’s Invisible Labor?
Emily Nussbaum re-genders the Quality Television canon.
Katarzyna Bogdańska
Mother Jones: Evangelical Purity Culture Taught Me to Rationalize My Sexual Assault
I realized my own past was deeply intertwined with this evangelical reckoning.
Breaking News
George Walker IV/AP
The Guardian:
Tennessee community mourns 16 killed in munitions plant explosion
At least 200 mourners came to the Humphreys County Courthouse at twilight on Sunday to mourn the 16 people killed in an explosion at a nearby munitions plant in Middle Tennessee early on Friday.
Cheney Orr/Reuters
The Guardian:
Kamala Harris Praises the Courage of the ‘Tennessee Three’ on visit to Nashville
About 500 people packed the chapel at Fisk University, a historically Black college in Nashville, Tennessee, and sang the civil rights anthem This Little Light of Mine while they waited for US vice-president Kamala Harris to appear. When she did, the crowd erupted in cheers.