I’m currently a senior producer on the Ambie award-winning Wondery podcast Scamfluencers, where often we find that the scam is America itself: the healthcare system, the education system, and the criminal justice system. Some of my favorite episodes delve into the intersection of pop culture, celebrity, and politics. Who gets busted for what, and at what cost?
I recently wrote the finale to our two-part series on Martha Stewart, for which I read dozens of magazine articles and court transcripts and watched a ton of bad reality shows and made-for-TV movies. It was pretty great. You can listen to it here. I also recommend every episode we’ve ever done on the Real Housewives (there are more than you might think), and one of my personal favorites, on Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced ex-governor of the state in which I spent my early 20s and still miss very much, Illinois. Oh also, here’s a picture I found on Getty images of us winning an award one time in Las Vegas.
Previously, I was a story editor on Class Action, an audio documentary about law school mock trial competitions across the country, so I basically have an honorary JD now. I was also a producer on an investigative podcast called Brokers, Bagmen and Moles, in which I got to write about my love for Chicago and also all the disgusting stuff that happened on the trading floor in the 1980s… up until the FBI showed up.
Before that, I contributed to KCRW’s Design & Architecture, where I wrote, tracked, and produced features about the desert, displacement, and the changing landscapes in Southern California. Some of my favorite pieces are this one about an art fair on the Salton Sea and this one about the revitalization of a veteran’s hall in Hollywood.