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 unequal 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.
My prior journalistic roles crossed several beats, but in general I focused on narratives about boundaries, barriers and borders. For several years I honed in on cross-border stories, 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.
Before reporting for the Hearst Newspaper Group, I was an on-air correspondent in Spanish for the international TV station France 24, a fact checker for the Overseas Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the co-author of data-centric newsletter “Coronaviral”, and a freelance reporter.
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 the past few years I have worked as a staff Reporter/Producer in France 24’s Spanish-language headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, a reporting fellow for Reuters’ Mexico City bureau, and an NYC-based reporter for a data unit within Columbia Journalism Investigations through which I worked with the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística on a collaborative, nine-month project. I have been named both an Overseas Press Club Fellow and a FASPE fellow for journalistic ethics.
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 and communications within community-driven media for development, completed a Watson Fellowship, and worked as an educator and on curriculum content for multiple educational organizations/groups. I earned my bachelor’s degree with honors in 2013 from Colgate University, where I also played division one basketball.
