I’m Senior Producer and Reporter at Futuro Media where I lead serialized reporting on justice, immigration, and the criminal legal system at Latino USA, Futuro Studios and Futuro’s award-winning investigative unit. Most recently I co-produced Suave, a narrative podcast series about juvenile life without parole in the only nation in the world that still allows children to be sentenced to die in prison. Suave was recognized by the International Documentary Association as 2021’s Best Audio Documentary Series and was the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. I’m the lead producer, reporter and host of an upcoming Futuro podcast dropping Summer 2025.

I believe we exist in service to each other and in meeting people where they are. I published my first news article (above the fold!) in 2006 at a now defunct newspaper. Since then, documenting people’s lives has led me to parks, desert caravans and shelters across Central America. Deep in the “Devil’s Highway,” hiking for days in the Sonoran Desert with a search and rescue crew desperate to save lives. Down to the Darien, the infamous jungle between Colombia and Panama, to document the grueling trek of asylum seekers forced to take an extended way north. To prisons and detention centers across the U.S. All the way to soccer fields in Argentina to understand what a young man with a soccer ball can teach us about why we leave home — even when we so desperately want to stay.

My reporting has aired on NPR, NBC, BBC, AP and others and has been recognized with a number of awards. But nothing has yet to match the feeling of seeing the result of years of reporting help lead to the release of two men from prison in separate cases — one of them, Joseph Webster, had spent nearly two decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. The series of local stories highlighting the unjust return to prison of Matthew Charles went viral and was shared by Kim Kardashian, Chelsea Clinton and other influential figures - it made national headlines and landed all the way in Congress and The White House. Matthew’s story was used to highlight the need for criminal justice reform. When the The First Step Act was passed, Matthew Charles was chosen as the first to be released from federal prison and he was invited to the State of The Union (I followed along exclusively and documented the moment for NPR).

I began my career reporting on music and culture for newspapers and magazines, have worked in music studios and running major nightclubs and concerts, and I’m deeply passionate and curious about the intersection of music, art and human rights. On my personal time, I’m part of an artist team handling all things media production, I’m co-curator of a hip-hop and art pop-up in Atlanta that honors the art of storytelling in all its forms, and I also create experimental audio installations combining documentary storytelling, music, new technology and classical mediums like photojournalism.