I'm an investigative journalist, product manager, nonprofit founder, and woodworker.

In 2020, I co-founded the OptOut Media Foundation, a nonprofit charity with a mission to educate the public about current events and help sustain a diverse media ecosystem by promoting and assisting independent news outlets, where I was executive director. I oversaw the development of our news aggregation app for exclusively independent media content, OptOut News, which we launched for iOS and Android in 2022. Until retiring the app in late 2024, we had over 15,000 downloads with virtually no paid advertising, and our newsletters had more than 6,000 organic sign-ups.

My specialty in reporting, research, and editing is following the money. I was most recently an investigative reporter at The Center for Media and Democracy, where I tracked right-wing funding networks. Previously, I was a senior investigative reporter and editor at Sludge, a money-in-politics news site that I helped launch, a contributor to TYT Investigates, and part of the investigative unit at International Business Times, where we won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business award for our coverage of the 2017 Republican tax bill. You can see my work for IBT here.

I got my start in journalism by researching and reporting on campaign finance in North Carolina state politics at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, N.C., and its online magazine, Facing South. I use data-heavy research as I cover underreported topics such Charles Koch's donations to higher education, the money driving anti-LGBTQ laws, the fight against clean energy.

My stories have appeared at more than two dozen publications including The American Prospect, DeSmog, The Guardian, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch, The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Vice. I've discussed my work on TV and radio, with appearances on Georgia Public Broadcasting, The Big Picture with Thom Hartman, The Real News Network, The Rational National, and Time Warner Cable News.

I earned a Bachelor's in music from Brown University and Master's and PhD degrees in music composition from Duke University, where I fused contemporary classical with electronic dance music. I wrote my dissertation on this marriage of genres after research fellowships in Berlin and London.