I cover politics and government for OPB. My goal is to give listeners and readers an intimate understanding of how weighty decisions impacting them are made, and an idea of whether policymakers are meeting their often lofty aims. That means getting past the sanitized messaging that is so beloved in the Capitol. I also co-host OPB's weekly politics podcast, OPB Politics Now. Basically, I spend far too much time traveling the highway between Portland and Salem.

I grew up in Michigan, and spent more than a decade in newspapers before jumping to public media in 2018. I’ve worked as a reporter in Missouri, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., but I’ve lived in Oregon since 2009 and (mostly) consider it a privilege.