I'm a reporter on the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's investigative team. This is my personal website.
Current obsessions
Atlanta. Housing, neighborhoods and race. Afflicting the comfortable. Writing better. Gardening. Not being a jerk. Eating baked goods.
Recent(ish) favorites, curiosities
Old News: In 2005, I interviewed the mother-in-law of Rigoberto Alpizar, who died after being shot on an airport jetway by air marshals. She declined to come outside, but was willing to speak with me through a mail slot.
Recent is a relative term. I'm a projects reporter, after all. Links may require a subscription to MyAJC.com.
How the Atlanta Beltline broke its promise on affordable housing, (featuring students from the Georgia News Lab), July 16, 2017
Bailed out of jail: An extraordinary Mother’s Day present, May 14, 2017
How Atlanta's housing agency for the poor might help the well-off instead, March 12, 2017
Witnesses: Gladys Knight’s son spent on sex, pot as waffle chain sank, July 25, 2016
Five Nights in July: The Black Lives Matter movement takes on America's Black Mecca, Oct. 2, 2016
Nobody Home: How legal corporate secrecy harmed one Atlanta neighborhood, June 12, 2016
Locked Away: How Grady Hospital withheld sexual assault evidence from police, June 14, 2015
Betting on 'The Bluff': As a Buckhead investor buys up a neighborhood, the properties crumble, fuel blight, Nov. 2, 2014
Recent(ish) results
Beltline CEO steps down; New head to focus on affordable housing, Aug. 23, 2017
Atlanta pays feds $1.8 million for jobs program; contractor prosecuted, Dec. 1, 2016
Amid cheers, rape kit bill clears final hurdle in Georgia, March 25, 2016
Grady releasing 1,000 rape kits withheld from law enforcement, July 30, 2015
Atlanta investor Rick Warren guilty in trials over squalid houses, September 22, 2015
Past Lives
Spare Time
Volunteering
Asian American Journalists Association, Atlanta chapter national board representative
Yale Alumni Schools Committee volunteer (they gave me an award!!!)
Herding cats
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So honored to be part of the @ajc team that won for Dangerous Dwellings. Thank you @IRE_NICAR! https://t.co/j0RmsvBhRt -
RT @ThatSeanKeenan: Former Forest Cove tenants and housing advocates are outside Atlanta’s @HUDgov office, demanding the federal agency… https://t.co/FPfZKXcVfu
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More on the bill to create basic living standards in rentals, which failed to cross the finish line at Sine Die. H… https://t.co/MEGySx4rXd
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For those who are curious, HB 404, a bill that would require Georgia landlords to provide housing that is “fit for… https://t.co/xh4vza02HZ
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A bill that would for the first time require rentals to be “fit for human habitation”just passed the Sen Judiciary… https://t.co/bjV2OElTmH