On Our Last Legs
Society of Publication Designers Awards, Digital Medal Finalist | Due to high costs, many Americans have to ration the medicine and medical equipment they rely on.
Heartbreaking Images From a Photographer Grappling With a Complex Past
Society of Publication Designers Awards, Digital Medal Finalist | Photographer Jordan Gale's project "Don't Be This Way Forever" has brought him catharsis as he seeks to unravel his past.
The Underground Economy of Unpaid Care
Co-published with YES! Magazine. More than 40 million people provide unpaid care for adults. My mother was one of them.
I was wrongly detained at the border. It’s part of a larger problem.
Co-published with The Washington Post. It shouldn’t be so hard to differentiate between law-abiding U.S. citizens and wanted criminals.
My Mother Was Dying of COVID. Being Poor Made It So Much Worse.
Published in The Washington Post. I realized long ago that there are two separate and very different health-care systems in this country.
Like Bruce Willis, I Have Aphasia. Here’s What Life Is Like With This Incurable Disorder.
Published in HuffPost. It has gotten to the point where I often just avoid interactions requiring me to speak.
Inequity in Maternal Health Care Left Me With Undiagnosed Postpartum PTSD
Co-published with Parents Magazine. The condition impacts up to 17 percent of birthing people, but it's often underdiagnosed and undertreated, especially among lower-income patients.
I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness—Only to Face Your White Savior Complex
Co-published with Mother Jones. But I am determined to become something other than your project.
A Day After Giving Birth, I Was Asked Back to Work. America Needs Paid Family Leave.
Co-published with The Guardian. The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among developed countries. Yet Senator Joe Manchin struggles to understand why paid family leave is important.
37,000 U.S. Veterans Are Homeless. I Was One of Them.
Co-published with Newsweek. So many veterans who leave the tangle of war end up on America's streets, still fighting daily for their survival.
I Bought My Kids Dinner — And Saw Firsthand How Overdraft Fees Punish the Poor
Co-published with the Washington Post. Low-income people suffer the consequences of overdraft fees more than those who are financially comfortable.
Medicaid Has Been Good to My Body, But It Has Abandoned My Brain
Co-published with the Chicago Reader. I want choice, not a fistful of unhelpful options from the cruel system we make poor people navigate to access health care.