I’m a print and multimedia reporter with investigative chops.
Since early 2023 I have been the Climate & Environmental Reporter for the Houston Chronicle, covering everything from hurricanes and rising tides to Superfund sites and the dangerous health impacts of pollution in Texas’ famously zoning-free city. Before moving to Houston I worked for the Albany Times Union as an investigative reporter, where I received the paper’s inaugural Joseph T. Lyons fellowship.
Prior to my time with the Hearst Newspaper Group I spent several years honing in on cross-border topics from migration to organized crime, building on my pre-journalism background in Psychology, Peace & Conflict Studies and International Development. I also regularly reported on politics, the environment, education and business.
I have been a reporter and Overseas Press Club fellow for Reuters’ Mexico City bureau, an on-air correspondent and Bogota-based reporter/producer in Spanish for France 24 and a member of a Columbia Journalism Investigations data unit focused on international money laundering. I have freelanced, including as Documented NY’s reporter covering immigrant housing. I reported with the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística and fact checked for the Overseas Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). During the pandemic I co-authored the data-centric newsletter “Coronaviral” and worked on Missing Them, a commemorative reporting project by The City.
I am a Montrealer based between the United States, Colombia and Canada, with additional experience working from countries including Mexico, Hungary and Timor Leste. I speak and report in English, Spanish and French.
In 2019, I earned my master’s in journalism from Columbia in New York. Prior to graduate school, I was a reporting intern at both CBC Radio in Montreal and The Newfoundland Telegram. I also worked for several years in multimedia production within community-driven UN programs, completed a Watson Fellowship, and supported both curriculum development and instruction in the educational system. I earned my bachelor’s degree with honors in 2013 from Colgate University, where I also played division one basketball and earned the Dag Hammarskjöld prize for peace.
