Experience

I began my career as a newspaper reporter in North Carolina, Arkansas, and Missouri. I was a special correspondent for The New York Times in Arkansas during Bill Clinton’s first years as President.

After moving to Washington, D.C., I contributed to the best-seller “Blood Sport” and was a special correspondent for The Washington Post covering the Clinton White House, Congress, and campaign finance.

I also reported for international television documentaries on the Clintons, Kosovo, the Irish peace process, political messaging, and the American Taliban fighter.

At the Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Pew Research Center, I wrote about the role of religion in health care, presidential campaigns, White House faith-based initiatives, the Supreme Court, and the global Muslim population.

I co-authored “Deep South Dispatch” about the civil rights movement, and I teach at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Achievements

I have won Associated Press and Gannett awards for my articles on homelessness, teen pregnancy, the LGBTQ community, criminal misuse of state money, and judicial nepotism.