I’m a journalist who specializes in telling stories about women.

I began my career as a staff writer for The Rutland Herald, in Vermont, and The Hartford Courant, in Connecticut. My work has since appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Business Insider, The Texas Observer, The Boston Globe, The Tampa Bay Times, Scientific American, and many other outlets. In 2023, I was a finalist for an award from Investigative Reporters & Editors.

My reporting and writing have been supported by MacDowell, Type Investigations, and Retro Report.

I am the author of Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, a biography of housewife, naturalist, and adventurer Phoebe Snetsinger that was published by Bloomsbury in 2009.

From 2015 through 2020, I ran The Grandparent Effect, a news site I created about the rising importance of grandparents—especially grandmothers—in American families. Now, I focus on investigating how police departments, courts, and other institutions respond to allegations of domestic and child abuse.

My bachelor’s degree is from Harvard, where I majored in Social Studies, earned a certificate in Latin American Studies, and graduated magna cum laude. I have a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Columbia and was a lecturer in science writing at Johns Hopkins.

I live with my husband, daughter, and dog in Hanover, New Hampshire, just off the Appalachian Trail. I was a volunteer for WISE, an organization working to end gender-based violence in New Hampshire and Vermont.