Journalism

I'm a former investigative journalist and photographer based in Venezuela nearly a decade during the worst of its humanitarian crisis. I worked too across the Americas and Middle East with everyone from the New Yorker and New York Times to Time Magazine and Reuters, where I was a Senior Correspondent.

I undertook major investigations, including showing that the results of a national Venezuelan election were fabricated; secrets about the country's military; that the country's Chief Justice was arrested on suspicion of murder; and high-level, multi-billion dollar corruption at Venezuela's state oil company.

I have idealistic goals of what investigative journalism should be, and the tremendous impact it can have on society if done correctly. However, I saw firsthand that the industry rarely displays the competence and integrity needed to achieve those goals.

Since leaving journalism, I have continued to mentor journalists, delivered lectures at Berkeley's Human Rights Center and the Logan Symposium about the use of AI in investigations, and written a memoir about that period.

My entire body of work is in the archive.