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Awards and Recognition

Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Reporting

https://mailchi.mp/c2e7f6405612/march24fourthestate-9502595?e=2806aa264b&fbclid=IwY2xjawLPuIFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE3SFRiR1N6NXI0dU5DNXhFAR7W-6tNflNuPnYec91DgosZD-Kf6v7eN33YK8R1DculrFSFMLd3nlS-e6Yx7Q_aem_IogXoklsuJgEG-l8z30N5Q

  • I was named the youngest recipient ever of the Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Reporting, the highest journalism award in Mississippi, for an investigation I reported while interning at the Clarion Ledger in 2024:

"This story illustrates why we become journalists—to speak for the disenfranchised. Tight writing, clear story, the whole package," judges wrote of my reporting on a flood control program in the Mississippi capital city that actually made the problems it was intended to correct worse.

ProPublica Emerging Reporters Program

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-emerging-reporters-2024

  • I was honored as a ProPublica Emerging Reporter for my work in investigative reporting

Chips Quinn Fellowship

https://www.jfp-local.org/view-all-press/chips-quinn-program-announces-2024-early-career-reporters

  • I was selected as one of eleven journalists for a one-year fellowship and $10,000 career support

South Asian Journalists' Association Scholarship

https://saja.org/page-935554/13249971

Selected Clips

One Lake Project could flood parts of South Jackson. Residents there had no idea

One Lake Project could flood parts of South Jackson. Residents there had no idea

One Lake Project could flood parts of South Jackson. Residents there had no idea

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2024/08/07/one-lake-project-could-increase-flooding-for-some-parts-of-south-jackson/74631710007/


Investigation published in the Clarion Ledger

Why Faculty Members Are Fleeing Florida

One Lake Project could flood parts of South Jackson. Residents there had no idea

One Lake Project could flood parts of South Jackson. Residents there had no idea

https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-faculty-members-are-fleeing-florida?sra=true


Investigation published in The Chronicle of Higher Education 

Has JTRAN really improved since its March relaunch? We rode buses to find out

One Lake Project could flood parts of South Jackson. Residents there had no idea

Brick and mortar reminders of Georgia’s mistreatment of psychiatric patients could be erased soon

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2024/07/10/jackson-ms-jtran-public-transportation/74318500007/



Investigation published in the Clarion Ledger

Brick and mortar reminders of Georgia’s mistreatment of psychiatric patients could be erased soon

Brick and mortar reminders of Georgia’s mistreatment of psychiatric patients could be erased soon

Brick and mortar reminders of Georgia’s mistreatment of psychiatric patients could be erased soon

https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/11/13/brick-and-mortar-reminder-of-georgias-mistreatment-of-psychiatric-patients-could-be-erased-soon/


Enterprise published in The Georgia Recorder

Georgia AI-generated child pornography case spurs legislative action

Brick and mortar reminders of Georgia’s mistreatment of psychiatric patients could be erased soon

Two Foreign Aid Workers Killed by Russian Artillery Fire Near Bakhmut

https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/proposed-georgia-law-would-impose-15-year-prison-sentence-for-ai-child-porn/RT7B3KLODJFJBORU6KBP5G25AM/



Investigation published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Two Foreign Aid Workers Killed by Russian Artillery Fire Near Bakhmut

Brick and mortar reminders of Georgia’s mistreatment of psychiatric patients could be erased soon

Two Foreign Aid Workers Killed by Russian Artillery Fire Near Bakhmut

https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-foreign-aid-workers-killed-by-russian-artillery-fire-near-bakhmut?ref=author



Breaking news published in The Daily Beast

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