Health and Science Reporter
I joined KTOO Public Media as health and science reporter in March 2021 after three years as senior reporter for the KHNS Local News in Haines, Alaska and Alaska's Energy Desk. I was a 2020 Center for Health Journalism National Fellow and a 2018 Solutions Journalism Health Fellow.
They say significant increases in prevention work and community-level support are necessary to slow the rate of domestic violence.
The Lower Kuskokwim School District’s itinerant social workers are a model for how curriculum and mentorship can reach even the most remote schools.
He says treatment can help unhoused people, survivors of domestic violence.
A new screening tool could increase access to care for survivors
Survivors and advocates shed light on how far the state has come and the work yet to be done.
Survivors and advocates shed light on how far the state has come and the work yet to be done.
Assaults and homicides fuel the state’s high maternal mortality rate, while programs struggle to reach survivors in isolated communities.
How do you find sources that live in hard-to-reach places in the middle of a pandemic?
Alaska women who live in rural and remote communities usually travel to city centers to give birth against incredible geographical odds.
In Unalaska, the only commuter airline went out of business during the pandemic. That poses especially serious obstalces for pregnant women, who can’t postpone appointments.
