Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist.
Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica I’m honored to share that I am officially a Pulitzer Prize winner. Our series on unscrupulous towing laws in Connecticut, in partnership with the Connecticut Mirror, was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. Our reporting examined how Connecticut’s towing laws enabled predatory…
Proud to share that our data reporting in “Life of the Mother,” which set out to quantify the impact of Texas’s abortion ban using data, received second place in the Investigator Reporters and Editors’ Philip Meyer Award. https://www.ire.org/2026/02/03/ire-announces-winners-of-the-2025-philip-meyer-journalism-award/
Our story on the rise in rates of sepsis after Texas banned abortion won the ONA University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism. Life of the Mother - Online Journalism Awards
Data reporter for Pulitzer-winning series “Life of the Mother.” Consulted with dozens of maternal health experts to come up with a groundbreaking analysis on the rise in sepsis in Texas after abortion was banned on a short timeline. Analyzed data on maternal deaths in Texas that the state refused to review. Our findings were repeatedly cited by speakers at hearings on the Life of the Mother Act.…
The Failure to Track Data on Stillbirths Undermines Efforts to Prevent Them For this story on the crucial lack of data about stillbirths, I collaborated with data reporter Irena Hwang to analyze three years of fetal death and birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which we obtained through a research request. I helped design our analysis, working closely with reporter Duaa…
The Federal Program to Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina Shortchanged the Poor. New Data Proves It. The Federal Program to Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina Shortchanged the Poor. New Data Proves It. For this three-part series on the Road Home Program, my co-reporter Jeff Adelson at the Advocate and I analyzed a novel data set of 90K+ rebuilding grants from the Road Home program. Overall, we found…
They Faced Foreclosure Not From Their Mortgage Lender, but From Their HOA : For this story about how homeowners associations in Colorado foreclosed on residents during the pandemic, I led the data gathering and analysis. I created a database of over 2,400 foreclosure cases filed by HOAs during the pandemic by scraping court records from the Colorado Public Access terminal between Jan 2018 to Feb.…
In North Carolina, Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots Much More Likely to Be Rejected Than Those From Any Other Race : Motivated by ACLU studies on vote-by-mail in Florida and Georgia that showed higher rejection rates for minority voters, I came up with the idea to analyze mail ballot rejection rates in North Carolina, a swing state that has a history of voter suppression. Teaming up with local…
My interview with Univision News in December 2019 on my story, Despite Audit, Doctors With Checkered Records Can Still Decide Fate of Green Card Seekers .
Despite Audit, Doctors With Checkered Records Can Still Decide Fate of Green Card Seekers — ProPublica : For this investigation into the US Citizenship and Immigration Service’s failure to vet the doctors that perform immigration medical exams, I was the lead reporter, pitching, investigating, and writing the story. After several failed attempts to FOIA the information, I scraped USCIS’ online…
When It Comes to Rape, Just Because a Case Is Cleared Doesn’t Mean It’s Solved — ProPublica : For this year-long investigation into how police departments are inflating their reported rape clearance rates, I contributed to the analysis of police records of sexual assault from 64 counties in the US. In addition, I revised and edited our methodology, fact-checked the story, and worked in…
HUD Inspect: Is Publicly Subsidized Housing Decent, Safe and Sanitary? : For this story and interactive database on public housing’s faulty scoring system, I led the data analysis of thousands of messy records from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, fact-checked other reporters’ work, and contributed to reporting. Read: “HUD Inspect,” at ProPublica.org.
Ongoing project to use sound to convey the impact of gun violence in America. How other countries can help us understand America’s mass shooting crisis was first published after the Sutherland Springs, Texas shooting in Nov. 2017, and updated in Feb. 2018 after the Parkland shooting. Listen to the first radio segment on Soundcloud (Nov. 2017) Listen to the updated radio segment after…
Millions say #MeToo. But not everyone is heard equally. : Using data from Media Cloud and Crimson Hexagon , I analyzed media biases in US and international news coverage of the #MeToo movement.
Nearly 40 percent of DACA recipients are high school or college students. Now their future is in limbo. : Interactive cover story produced for PRI.org. I used HTML and Javascript to create the interactive elements.
There’s no evidence linking the Las Vegas attack to ISIS. So why did the group claim responsibility? : Rukmini Callimachi, who covers Islamic extremism for the New York Times, said she began to have doubts about the claim soon after it was posted. “I Googled what was known about the shooter,” Callimachi said. “And as soon as I found out that he was a white male who was 64 years old, I started to…
How to speak like an aliebn — no, that's not a typo : An interview with Jonny Sun about the wonderfully weird grammar of his aliebns. For the World in Words podcast.
DACA recipients won’t go back into the shadows quietly : Contributed to reporting and created graphics for this story following the withdrawal of DACA.
What it's like aboard an NGO ship rescuing hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean : Multimedia diary of a week on a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean. I produced this interactive story, including photo, video, and audio editing, HTML and CSS layout.
To scrape or not to scrape: technical and ethical challenges of collecting data off the web - Storybench : Story written for Storybench.org on the ethics of scraping data from the web.