Illustration for the Marshall Project’s Life Inside series:
“Prison Healthcare Means Not Knowing What’s Slowly Destroying My Body
For over two years, a mystery illness has made it hard for James Keown to walk, sit up and eat. Now he wonders if he has to die to be diagnosed.”
What My Professors Never Told Me About Teaching
“Six hard truths from a decade in the teaching profession”
For Education Week
“Hunter Biden Snagged a Cushy Bank Job After Law School. He’s Been Trading LINKon His Name Ever Since.” for Politico
The informant at the heart of the Gretchen Witmer kidnapping was a liability, so the FBI shut him up. for The Intercept.
Liver Bureaucracy
“New liver transplant rules yield winners, losers as wasted organs reach record high” for The Washington Post
Cover illustration for The Dallas Observer’s cover story about musicians experiencing gear and instrument theft
Teachers Deserve the Chance to Learn From Failure
“Mistakes are an essential part of learning—and not just for students” for Education Week
Cover illustration for Phoenix New Time’s in memoriam story about those who were lost, including the massive heat wave that killed many of Arizona’s iconic saguaro cactuses.
Mind Games
“Mired in a mental-health crisis with no easy answers, should we start considering difficult ones?”
For Phoenix Magazine
“When we reimagine American public space as a fortress, we lose. ‘Hardening’ the built environment won’t defeat mass murderers anyway” for The Washington Post
How Artificial Intelligence will be integrated into Healthcare
Where the Rankers Meet the Ranked
“An annual conference illustrates college rankings’ enduring dominance.” for The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wired for Belief
“The Relative Implausibility of Certainty” discussing our connection to our belief systems; from religion to superstition
for SKEPTIC
The Russian language once held prestige in Ukraine. Then bullets began flying. How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turned words into weapons
“Prosecuting Trump would set a risky precedent. Not prosecuting would be worse. Are we afraid to test the principle that no one is above the law?” for The Washington Post
Unnatural Conversation in the Zoom Era
“How Zoom killed the fine art of interrupting”
She’s Not Your Pawn
“With its new abortion law, Arizona is exploiting people like [the author’s daughter] under the pretext that it cares about defending their civil rights.”
When business is slow, and comparisons are all around you.
Personal work.
Portrait of Charles Booker, politician running against Rand Paul in Kentucky’s Senate race.
“The Cold War is over. Why do we still treat Russia like the Evil Empire? Both countries are locked in old battles. What if we just stopped fighting them?” for The Washington Post
Retirement Trouble
“For Workers Over 50, a Job Without Benefits Means Nest Egg Trouble.”
Glitch
Illustration of Mark Zuckerburg addressing troubles Facebook has been facing.
(Alternative below)
“How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the wold”
Header for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism with spot illustrations (below)
Roadblock
How Brexit has added another roadblock to Brits driving in foreign countries.
For Politico EU
The ancient tree holds many stories in its branches.
Submission for Will Draw For Good
Immigration on the main stage
“As immigration politics changed, so did ‘In the Heights’”
Implicit Bias Training
“When Implicit Bias Training Antagonizes the Workers It’s Supposed to Help”
How the Christian right helped foment insurrection
“Christian-right activists inside and outside of government promoted the election fraud lie and claimed God told them to ‘let the church roar’.”
Cocktails Crossing the Ocean
“How Bartenders Around the World Are Collaborating During Covid-19”
For VinePair
Spend More on Society and Get More for Yourself
“The coronavirus crisis demonstrates a basic truth. American individualism has made individuals unhappy and, too frequently, sick. There is another way, an economist says.”
Alzheimer’s Crisis
“The Coming Alzheimer’s Crisis—and What to Do About It”
cover illustration for Barron’s Magazine
Invisible Bodies
COVID’s effect on the unhoused LGBTQ population.
No Santa This Year
“The demise of her favorite Christmastime tradition puts our columnist in a holiday funk – and makes her fret over the future of local business.”
Estate Planning for Humanity
“We must tell our story to extraterrestrial and post-human life”
For NOEMA , Published by the Berggruen Institute
Drunk on Influence
“Brands, Agencies, and Creators: How BevAlc Influencer Marketing Happens Today”
For VinePair
Maureen McLane’s More Anon
“Why Feel Bad About Beauty? ‘More Anon’ charts Maureen N. McLane’s career-long ambivalence toward the Romantic canon.”
How Consulting Firms Are Taking Over France
“The French government is relying more and more on consulting firms. They’re now helping shape policy from the coronavirus vaccination campaign, to the economic recovery plan. “
For Politico EU
The Aftermath of an Infernal Election Season
About Arizona’s connection to the Capitol Riot in January.
Lost in Jouvie
About the difficulty/futility of placing minors with developmental and emotional problems in traditional juvenile detention programs, and the stark divide between their lives, and the lives of typical high school kids.
The revolutionary gene-editing technology.
Personal work.
“Mailbox”
A short fiction story for Franciscan Media’s St. Anthony Messenger Magazine.
Portrait of Brazil’s dictator president Jair Bolsonaro as a response to his callused destruction of the Amazon Rainforest.
Personal work.
Gone, Baby Gone
The author bids adieu to her college-age child, which reassesses her own identity as a Phoenician.
Italy's COVID healthcare trouble
“The coronavirus pandemic has stretched health systems — and the families that rely on them — to the breaking point.”
For Politico EU
Borderline Emergency
“Local nonprofits and medical professionals are working hard to address the staggeringly complex and ominous health care crisis on the border.”
The weight of online harassment in the digital age.
Personal work.
Submission for Rescue Party 2020.
Nine panel sequential piece (see below)
Sow your seeds in spring, for changes during the midterms.
Personal work.
The gun epidemic in the United States will never be cleansed.
Personal work.
For the new year - try new things and be open to change.
Personal work.
Bad business decisions.
Personal work.
Inspired by Jared Muralt’s The Fall.
For a fan contest.
Portrait of Canadian chef, internet personality, tattoo enthusiast, Matty Matheson.
Personal work.