I am a reporter at The Lever where I investigate the political corruption and corporate greed that runs our health care system and other businesses.
Prior to The Lever, I covered stories about my missing left temporal lobe and how the neural networks critical for language managed to rewire themselves; how Medicaid and insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act often don’t cover the basics, including injectable estrogen, needed by many transgender Americans; and how the medical coding system used by health insurance companies discriminates against trans patients seeking gender-affirming care. My work has appeared in High Country News, KFF Health News, Knowable Magazine, Nature Magazine, The New York Times, Science Magazine, Scientific American, Slate, Smithsonian Magazine, WIRED and more.