Teen Vogue: U.S. Soccer’s Mallory Pugh on Age, Confidence, and Staying in the Game

Mallory Pugh paws a soccer ball like a panther does its prey. She slinks it back and forth between her hands, staring straight ahead. On the field, she outruns her opponents, gliding the ball gracefully toward the goal as if corralling her next kill. She is lethal, and she is relentless — and she tells herself …

Teen Vogue: A Year After the Weinstein Allegations, the #MeToo Movement Largely Hasn’t Reformed Survivor Justice

On October 5, 2017, some people say the world changed — or at least it was supposed to. That day, a year ago, the New York Times published the first sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, claims that quickly grew from a few alleged survivors to a whole army of them. In the months that followed those allegations, many other …

GateHouse Media: Prison Moms

Picking at her long nails, painted gold and black, Kayla Duggan speaks calmly as she recalls the darkest time in her life. It’s one familiar to thousands of women across the country. Duggan tells her parenting counselors about the pain of catching only glimpses of her son growing up. At age 3, Giovanni is now …

Teen Vogue: Women Speak Out About Former Northwestern Professor Alec Klein’s Alleged Sexual Harassment

Looking back, Olivia Pera said the first red flag should have been that Alec Klein kept inviting her to be alone with him. Her first job interview with the man she would later work for was in his office, a typical spot for something like that to take place. The second, she said, was at a restaurant …

Teen Vogue: How Incarceration Impacts LGBTQ Youth’s Mental Health

Dayvon Williams says he was first incarcerated when he was 18 after being convicted of residential burglary. "My experience in the beginning was like, I was like really devastated," Dayvon, who is now 27, tells Teen Vogue. "I wasn't used to [jail]." Dayvon, who identifies as gay, said he ultimately realized he had to adapt …

Best of 2015

This year was easily the best in my so-far short career. In 2015, I covered murder plots, weight loss, racism, sexism, bees and much, much  more. Here are the stories I wrote this year that I'm most proud of: Defeating obesity: This was likely my first story of 2015. I spoke with people who had …

MCAS or PARCC? Neither, MCAS 2.0

Here's a link to an article I wrote for the MetroWest Daily News on the nuisances of MCAS vs. PARCC, and where the state might go next. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20151101/NEWS/151109604

Stretched Thin: Foster family shortage stretches families thin

This article appeared in the MetroWest Daily News on Aug. 31  http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20150831/NEWS/150839602/?Start=1 In the home where Avalena Conway-Coxon lived, there were a lot of other children. By state standards, there were too many young children, but a waiver said that was OK. Then Avalena died on Aug. 15 of still unknown causes, there were two …

Sudbury remembers 9/11 victims at memorial garden

//www.tout.com/embed/touts/9fruyh A video I shot and produced via Tout for the MetroWest Daily News

Triumph and tragedy with tomatoes

This article appeared in the MetroWest Daily News on Aug. 21 When the winter’s relentless snow crushed Peter MacArthur’s greenhouse, the one his sons helped him build and where he grew his prized tomatoes, MacArthur said he felt like a part of him was gone. That’s why victory was extra sweet for MacArthur on Thursday …