I am a reporter and new media specialist with experience creating interactive features and producing data-driven stories and multimedia. I mostly write about politics, economics, health and design. In July of 2011 I received my M.A. in online journalism from USC's Annenberg School for Communication. This is what I've been working on.
Crime
PTSD in Urban High Schools: Huffington Post

PTSD in Urban High Schools: Huffington Post

Today my article on post-traumatic stress among Crenshaw High schoolers was picked up by the Huffington Post.

A home for 'Homeboys'

Luis Colosio first decided to join a gang the day his mother pressed his hand to a hot electric stove when he was six years old. Disowned by his family, he found a new one in the East L.A. Dukes as an adolescent. “I was smoking PCP, selling crack at 14,” Colosio said. “If a...