Storytelling that centers justice.
Documentaries & films
In this documentary series I directed and produced, I embed myself in the lives of gun violence survivors as they recover and heal. In the first episode, I trace the story of Marlon English, who was shot in August 2015. In the decade since, he has turned to farming to create food sovereignty in his South Side community.
Told through the voices of children who’ve experienced police abuse, this documentary uses police body camera video to expose the systems that enable racist policing without repercussion, and the generational trauma it leaves behind. I served as a lead writer and supervising producer. This film led to a new law and policy changes. It also earned a Peabody award.
As a lead writer and supervising producer of this Paramount+ true crime docu-series, I investigated a 40-year-old cold case that changed medicine forever. Decades later, the series uncovered missed clues and followed grieving families still fighting for justice.
Investigative news reports
Digital reporting
U.S. Department of Education is investigating Northwestern after anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic civil rights complaint.
"An overreach:" While other graffiti cases had no arrests, University of Illinois Chicago Police arrested and charged a Palestinian student with a felony for marking campus property with messages supporting Palestine.
Kids are dying from accessing loaded guns. A grieving Indiana mom is fighting to stop it.
'You have the wrong place:' body camera video shows moments police handcuff innocent, naked woman during wrong raid. The city of Chicago tried to take our team to court to prevent us from airing the body camera video, but we aired it anyway. Several search warrant policy reforms were enacted as a result of the reporting I did.
Left in the Dark: Tens of thousands of moments were never captured on Chicago Police body cameras. Lax oversight allows it to happen.
Across Illinois, Arab Americans were dying from COVID-19, but the government wasn't counting. It cost lives. Legislators in Illinois passed a law creating a MENA category after this story, in lieu of a federal MENA category.
![[un]warranted: A years-long investigation into how Chicago Police raid the wrong homes of innocent families, point guns at children and leave behind generational trauma in Black and Brown communities.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f2daf3547ca1230d5654e6/4e039685-6408-449c-aef9-4b8deb655221/Screenshot+2025-04-07+at+5.47.38%E2%80%AFPM.png)
[un]warranted: A years-long investigation into how Chicago Police raid the wrong homes of innocent families, point guns at children and leave behind generational trauma in Black and Brown communities.
Private information of child sex crime victims was exposed in Chicago; after this story, a new law was passed in Illinois to better protect their identities.
Police surveillance: How unfounded reports of suspicious activity in Illinois overwhelmingly target Arabs, Muslims doing routine activities, new report shows.