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She Was an Ultraconservative Texas Christian. Then Kai Was Born and Everything Changed.

Posted on March 26, 2017 · Add Comment

New story up at Fusion:

On the Monday before Christmas break at an elementary school in Pearland, Texas, just south of Houston, a five-year-old girl named Kai went with the rest of her kindergarten classmates to the library. Physically slight but hugely affectionate with silky blond hair, Kai loved her teacher, her classmates, [...]

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The Loner

Posted on March 9, 2017 · Add Comment

New story at Adirondack Life:

When John Maday and two other investigators from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office came upon the campsite, the first thing they saw was a man’s feet inside his crude lean-to of pine branches, blankets and tarps. The campsite was built on a flat area just below [...]

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Cleaning up the Parks

Posted on December 29, 2016 · Add Comment

Here’s an update to my Highline/Nation Institute Investigative Fund story, “Out Here No One Can Hear Your Scream,” from last March.

Early last year, a massive, years-long pattern of sexual harassment at the Grand Canyon, the crown jewel of the National Park Service, became a public scandal. As The [...]

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Arkansas’s foster care surge due to ‘questionable removals’ of kids, DHS consultant finds

Posted on October 11, 2016 · Add Comment

New story at Arkansas Times:

Twenty-two percent of Arkansas children who were placed in foster care in 2015 and early 2016 should have potentially been left with their families, representing a nearly 30 percent increase — amounting to at least 300 additional children — in “questionable removals” by the state’s child protection authorities, [...]

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Girl From the North Country

Posted on September 9, 2016 · Add Comment

New review up at The New Republic:

When Blair Braverman enrolled at age 18 in a Norwegian “folk school”—a self-guided education program with the “distinctly Scandinavian” aim of fostering “uncomfortable self-awareness”—she wanted to learn how to dogsled. From an early age, Braverman, a child of Southern California, had been transfixed by the idea [...]

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In Uganda, Fostering a World Without Adoption

Posted on September 6, 2016 · Add Comment

New story at Medium’s The Development Set:

In 2011, a young Ugandan woman I’ll call Evelyn learned she was HIV-positive when she was six months pregnant. Her husband’s family blamed her for the diagnosis, and declared they would find him a new wife. Newly alone and vulnerable, Evelyn was at a loss when [...]

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Mother and child disunion

Posted on June 9, 2016 · Add Comment

New story at Arkansas Times:

Ten days after her youngest son was born in April 2014, Lisa Rushing, a 27-year-old from Paragould, went to jail.

She’d been in trouble for a while: After receiving felony probation for credit card fraud, she’d failed to meet with her probation officer for at least two years, [...]

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The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters

Posted on June 1, 2016 · Add Comment

New review at The New Republic:

In 2011, when I was researching a book on international adoption, I met a man who made the incredible claim that he had founded a benevolent child-trafficking ring in China, whisking baby girls away from near-certain infanticide to the safety of North American adoptive homes. Because of [...]

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Story update: Top Grand Canyon Official To Retire Amidst Sexual Harassment Investigations

Posted on May 31, 2016 · Add Comment

Cross-posted from the Nation Institute Investigative Fund:

Amidst investigations revealing a pattern of sexual misconduct and a hostile work environment in Grand Canyon National Park, the park district’s superintendent David Uberuaga has announced his retirement.

In a letter emailed to Grand Canyon employees on May 17, Uberuaga described how he’d met with National [...]

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Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream The dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within America's parks and forests.

Posted on March 17, 2016 · Add Comment

New story up at Huffington Post’s Highline magazine:

On an early Friday morning in late June 2006, Cheyenne Szydlo, a 33-year-old Arizona wildlife biologist with fiery red hair, drove to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim to meet the river guide who would be taking her along the 280 miles of the Colorado River [...]

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