For most of its life, the Georgia State Election Board has been a sleepy bureaucratic body little-known outside the State Capitol, charged with making rules to help carry out Georgia election law. This story also appeared in WABE That changed last year, when an emboldened Republican majority passed a slew of last-minute rule changes that […]
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I cover elections, voting, public policy, the state legislature, demographics and law. I also host a WABE politics podcast and my reporting is often heard nationally on NPR. Lately, I am focused on covering the Fulton County Trump probe and the 2024 election. My title is “politics reporter,” but I think “democracy reporter” might be the best way to sum up my beat. I love sound and scene-rich stories that illuminate how policy, elections and the law affect people and communities.
Before WABE, I was a producer based in Washington, D.C. for NPR’s “All Things Considered” where I covered elections, immigration, impeachments, the pandemic and all kinds of breaking news from across the country and around the world. I also helped cover the 2020 election as a hybrid reporter-producer with NPR’s politics desk. I have also worked with NBC News in Washington and WDET, Detroit’s public radio station. I am a native Michigander and earned a degree in public policy from the University of Michigan where I served as Managing News Editor of the Michigan Daily.
