"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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-emerging-reporters-2024
https://www.jfp-local.org/view-all-press/chips-quinn-program-announces-2024-early-career-reporters
Investigation published in the Clarion Ledger
https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-faculty-members-are-fleeing-florida?sra=true
Investigation published in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Investigation published in the Clarion Ledger
Enterprise published in The Georgia Recorder
Investigation published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Breaking news published in The Daily Beast
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