I’m an award-winning investigative reporter whose work has prompted change on the national, state, and local levels.
I joined the 10 Tampa Bay team in August 2019.
From 2020-2024, I hosted and executive produced the investigative series "What’s Brewing?" on YouTube.
In 2023, 10 Investigates’ Emerald Morrow and I won a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for Continuing Coverage for our series "Battle Over Black History."
My investigation into a Tampa mosque’s failure to act on concerns raised about a youth program volunteer years prior to his molestation arrest won a 2022 Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for Investigative – Single Report.
My 2022 investigation changed state law after revealing most local school employees had not gotten training required after the Parkland mass shooting.
I won the 2021 Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for the Reporter – Investigative category.
In 2021, my investigation "Abuse of Access" changed state law. It revealed systemic issues with how government workers, including law enforcement officers, handle Florida drivers’ sensitive personal information. Because of this investigation, the state legislature passed a law that increased training for every law enforcement officer in Florida and quadrupled the penalty for misusing electronic state-run databases.
The Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists honored me in 2021 with its award for Individual Achievement – Reporter in a Large TV Market.
In 2020, I won a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award in the Reporter – Specialty Assignment category. I also won a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award in the Politics/Government category for my investigation "aBUSed," which uncovered a spike in attacks on Hillsborough County bus drivers.
A Florida native, I came to Tampa Bay from WJAX/WFOX-TV in Jacksonville, where I was an investigative and general assignment reporter for four years.
I won a 2019 Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for Politics/Government for my investigative series, "Gaps in Oversight of Military Moving Contractors." After my stories, the federal agency that coordinates military families’ moves made nationwide changes.
I won the Florida Associated Press Award for Reporter in a Medium TV Market in 2018 and 2017. I was a finalist for the award in 2016 and 2015.
My undercover investigation into unlicensed cosmetic procedures caused the Florida Department of Health to make statewide change.
Before moving to Jacksonville, I was the Greenville, South Carolina, bureau chief at WSPA-TV from 2013 to 2015. My investigation into how South Carolina was unknowingly licensing sex offenders to be chiropractors and residential plumbers led to the state agency changing its licensing practices, three state investigations, and a state senator introducing a bill to change the law.
I started out as a multimedia journalist at WKBT-TV in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from 2011 to 2013. While in La Crosse, my reporting on the deadly trend of heroin flooding the community won an Associated Press Award for Hard News.
In 2011, I graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
I was born and raised in the Orlando area.
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