I’m a health reporter with the Los Angeles Times covering race and healthcare. Previously I was the social issues reporter for the Star Tribune where I wrote about housing, health, affordability and equity issues in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. My work in Minnesota on how the state allows private hospitals to seize tax refunds from consumers with unpaid medical bills led to legislation being filed during a 2021 Minnesota Legislative session to end the practice. While reporting for the Texas Tribune in Austin I won an 2018 Online News Association award in explanatory reporting for my project on Texas’ maternal mortality problem. I’m a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grantee and a former Carter Center Mental Health Reporting fellow. My reporting has appeared in O the Oprah Magazine, the Atlantic, Civil Eats, CQ Roll Call, Cosmo for Latinas, Kaiser Health News, the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. I’m an alumna of Marquette University.