producer/reporter
Selected Production Work
A Tale of Two Towns: Ghost Town(ing) Part 8. The Modern West. 2021. Some former Southern enslaved people and their descendants followed the American dream westward, where they created towns to homestead together. This is a tale of two of those towns—on either side of the Wyoming-Colorado border—and what today’s small towns now can learn from their stories.
The In-Between. HumaNature. 2020. The leaves are scattering down the sidewalk and fog touches the tips of the trees. It’s that time of year when the shadows lengthen and we bring you stories that aren’t quite human or all the way natural. Welcome to a most haunted theatre.
The Afrovivalist. HumaNature. 2020. Sharon Ross wanted to be prepared for anything. But when she joined others getting ready for the end of the world, she found herself the odd one out.
What You’ve Lost During The Pandemic. Open Spaces. 2020. When the pandemic hit, I set up a voicemail for listeners to give air to their grief, and made a collage for broadcast.
Carpetbagger. The Modern West. 2019. If everybody who writes about a place is from someplace else, who gets to define the place?
The Prairie Chinatown That Disappeared. Open Spaces. 2019. A broadcast feature that tells the story of a forgotten Chinatown in rural Wyoming.
The Queen of Winter. Mixtape. 2019. An episode of a storytelling-music show I created for broadcast that tells a tale of winter.
The Event Horizon. HumaNature. 2018. Black holes are the most destructive force in the universe. But they may also be necessary for the creation of galaxies. If creative and destructive forces are linked, what does this say about artists, or mothers, or god, or even death?
The Hunt. HumaNature. 2018. Jessi Johnson is a modern-day Artemis. But the perfect shot led her on a heartbreaking odyssey.
Before Huntington’s: Seeking adventure while she’s able. WHYY Philadelphia’s The Pulse. 2018. Lucy came face-to-face with a family secret that upended her life. So she seized the moment.
Between A Rock And A Holy Place. HumaNature. 2017. Part of a three-part summer series, called Science Camp, which explores the human side of science. Ryan Haupt had a lot of questions about his faith. When he started looking for answers, he unearthed them in unexpected places.
Hoofprints On The Heart. HumaNature. 2016. This is the story of a love that spans continents. Jon Dunham set out on the longest, toughest walk of his life. But along the way, he met someone who helped carry the weight.
My Own Stories
In The Beginning, God Created The Heavens And The Earth And The Allosaurus. HumaNature. 2016. My story about evolution and religion in the Utah red desert.
When a Thru-Hike Falls Through. Out There. 2015. My audio essay about life on the Colorado Trail.