I cover Phoenix and Maricopa County government and politics. It's my pleasure to cover my hometown and my community. After graduating from Arizona State University's Cronkite School in 2009, I moved to the D.C. area, where I first covered government and education for local papers in Maryland and then covered trends in state policy across the U.S. for Stateline, a journalism project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. In 2018, I landed a job at The Arizona Republic and came home. My work has been published in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour and other outlets. Regional press associations in Arizona and Maryland have recognized my investigative and feature reporting, as well as my coverage of local politics and education. I was a City University of New York Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Fellow in 2015 and a National Press Foundation Paul Miller Reporting Fellow in 2017.