As a general assignment reporter for Noozhawk.com in Santa Barbara, I’ve written extensively about education, city and county government, and health subjects like medical marijuana and substance abuse. I’ve been working on the Central Coast since 2009, when I graduated from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo’s journalism program.

In 2012, reporter Lara Cooper and I took the lead on Prescription for Abuse: a special project in partnership with USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, which awarded Noozhawk publisher Bill MacFadyen with a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship. The series explored the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs in Santa Barbara County and the problem’s impacts on health care, education, law enforcement, addiction, treatment and prevention.