I pitched, wrote, and produced data visualizations for this multimedia story on bat population loss in Texas and its impacts. For the story, I talked to over 15 different bat experts and visited bat sites across the state in order to understand how scientists were combatting the loss and the lack of historical data collection. Using Illustrator, I made a graphic with over 500 little bat SVGs in order to demonstrate the population change over time.
My data analysis for this story uncovered that the district’s claims that major injury crash numbers had dropped were incorrect due to a data definition change in 2021 that led to the false decline. I pitched, co-reported and co-wrote this accountability-driven story. I also created a map and a chart to visualize the death toll.
I did a deep dive into the text of Project 2025 and compared it to the executive orders that President Donald Trump signed in his first 100 days in office during his second term in order to guage overlap. Trump had distanced himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail, but my analysis found substantive overlaps.
For this story I investigated how funding cuts from the Trump administration — which had previously promised to eradicate HIV/AIDS — could impact people across the U.S.
I pitched this story to my editor after a new Climate Central report was released on how the city has been growing warmer. I knew I wanted to do a story that touched on the magnitude of the climate crisis, but had an interesting news peg.
As I researched this article I uncovered how the loss of the tree canopy and its resulting urban heating disproportionally impacts lower income communities. I broadened the story into a larger piece addressing health inequities associated with more heat.
After the article was published, the piece got picked up by a local news TV station who interviewed me about my reporting — something no other intern has done in company history. I’m also quite proud of the headline — I proposed it to my editor as a joke, but we ended up using it in the final piece. It avoids the use of any scientific or clinical language that could alienate readers off-the-bat from reading the environmentally-driven piece.
This was a quick daily story I worked on in order to cut through misinformation about Venezuela's role in drug trafficking. The reporting follows strikes from the Trump administration on boats in the Caribbean.