Rape in the Fields
Center for Investigative Reporting · June 2013
***Multimedia story co-reported with PBS Frontline, UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, Univision, and KQED. Winner of Goldsmith, Robert F. Kennedy, Alfred I. DuPont, and Edward R. Murrow awards.***
Hundreds of female agricultural workers have complained to the federal government about being raped and assaulted, verbally and physically harassed on the job, while law enforcement has done almost nothing to prosecute potential crimes.
The Have and Have-Nots of Health in Sacramento
Sacramento Bee · April 2012
Witness the visible differences between east Sacramento and Oak Park, two neighborhoods only three-quarters of a mile apart. Beneath the surface are disparities just as stark in matters that are anything but superficial: residents’ rates of death and disease. [PDF]
Reinventing the Big Test
Edutopia · April 2008
When I was a younger education reporter in the old mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the big day came when the state released scores on its school accountability tests. And unwittingly, I played right into the dominant illusion that these bloodless test scores are the most definitive measure of a school’s success — and that they measure what’s most important. [PDF]