SELECTED WORK
Disaster & Disaster Recovery
Kentucky Floods, produced with Philip Reevell, BBC World Service Documentaries
Floods took their family homes. Many don't know when — or if — they'll get help, NPR News
In Kentucky flooding epicenter, communities help each other & wait for assistance, Ohio Valley ReSource/WMMT
Whitesburg, Kentucky, begins cleanup from devastating floods, Here & Now
Old nightmares and new dreams mark the year since Kentucky’s devastating floods, Grist
Environment & Energy
The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines, Grist
As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices, Grist
After a Pittsburgh coal processing plant closed, ER visits plummeted Grist
Disaster Coming Downriver, Science For the People Magazine
The flooding of Beech Fork Lake, Belt Magazine
Labor
How Florida farmworkers are protecting themselves from extreme heat, Grist
Eastern Ky coal miner’s death sparks safety questions, a community in mourning, Ohio Valley ReSource/WMMT
Musicians Are Workers, Too: Inside the Knoxville Symphony’s Struggle for Pandemic Pay, 100 Days in Appalachia
Can a Just Transition Shift Appalachia’s Balance of Power?, Science for the People Magazine
Dear national media, Southerners on unemployment aren’t living high on the hog, Scalawag Magazine
Long Hours, Sleepless Nights: Nonprofit Workers Unionize in the Appalachian Coalfields, Strikewave
“Harlan Pride: Queer Youth, Coal Miners, and the Long Road to Solidarity at the Blackjewel Blockade,” Commune Magazine
Housing
Community takes down neo-Nazis and slumlords in rural Tennessee, Scalawag Magazine
Evictions at a Kentucky trailer park highlight Ohio Valley’s lack of affordable housing, Ohio Valley ReSource/WMMT
As winter looms, some flooded eastern Kentuckians struggle to find housing, Ohio Valley ReSource/WMMT
Rural Infrastructure & Social Issues
A storied Kentucky town “dissolves”, others may follow, Ohio Valley ReSource/WMMT
Does Tennessee Actually Want to Solve the Broadband Problem?, 100 Days in Appalachia
Power Lines: Broadband and Democracy in East Tennessee, Scalawag Magazine
ICE Contracts with Metropolitan Knoxville Generate Fear with Rural Immigrants, Daily Yonder
Profit Over People: Inside an Appalachian Struggle to Save Rural Healthcare, Scalawag Magazine
Culture
Hector Saldivar Brings Mexican Folk Arts to East Tennessee, Inside Appalachia
“Cattywampus: Puppets, Pageantry Pull Knoxville Together,” Inside Appalachia
"Ten Years in Struggle: Occupy Wall Street and the Long Decade Since”, Protean Magazine
“The True (ish) Story of Tennessee Moonshiner Mahalia Mullins,” West Virginia Public Broadcasting/Inside Appalachia
Essays & Fiction
“Knoxville Quarry”, Swimming Holes compilation in Southerly Magazine
Moon Mining Gains Momentum (HAD)
Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise, Mergoat Magazine (print only)
A Serious Man, Wig Wag Magazine
“Knox Still Rocks: A Pandemic Dispatch from Tennessee”, Protean Magazine
“Adventure Tourism, Colonization, and the Mt Everest Mystique”, Current Affairs
“1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW”, Finger Magazine
