During my dozen years in Washington, I’ve traveled far and wide for the story.

I’ve rocked out in the 2017 Regional Air Guitar Championships and rode military vehicles through deep floods to cover Hurricane Florence. I traveled to rural Argentina to report a mysterious satellite built there by the Chinese, and followed Vice President Kamala Harris to Singapore and Vietnam in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve asked tough questions of Montana Sen. John Tester on his farm, Donald Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka at a conservative conference, and President Joe Biden at the White House.

Most recently, I reported for the Associated Press, first in Iowa, where I covered the run-up to the 2020 caucuses, and then on the road with the Mike Bloomberg and Joe Biden campaigns. I moved to the White House after Biden won the presidency, where I covered the development of his policy agenda, his efforts to rein in the COVID-19 pandemic and the early implementation of his infrastructure bill. I also focused on Harris as she sought to find her footing in the White House.

Prior to that, I was one of VICE’s two political correspondents for its inaugural season of VICE News Tonight on HBO, where I fronted documentary-style news packages on a range of topics and worked with a team to bring each story to life, from reporting and booking, to scripting, shooting, and editing. Along with a team of stellar journalists, I won an Emmy for our coverage of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

In 2015, I joined NBC News, where I was one of their campaign embeds. For the next year and a half, I lived out of a suitcase, following the candidates in one of the most chaotic presidential races in recent memory across the U.S. I shot video, tossed candidates questions in press gaggles, made on-air appearances and wrote stories on nearly every candidate that ran that year. Before that, I helped launch CNN’s newly-created digital politics team, covering the early start of the 2016 campaign and Capitol Hill politics.

I came to D.C. straight out of college determined to cover politics, after spending my college years yelling at lawmakers from my couch while watching policy battles play out on CSPAN late at night. I started my career at a trio of Capitol Hill newspapers — first Roll Call, then National Journal, and finally, The Hill — where I gained a working knowledge of the labyrinth beneath the Capitol and learned how to parse FEC filings and buttonhole congressmen in the hallways for questioning.

After more than a decade in Washington, I decided it was time for a break, so I took a year off to travel and rest. I built out my own van to live in, roadtripped across the U.S., went to Burning Man, traveled to Peru and Costa Rica, and came back to settle in Portland, Oregon — where I now spend time with family, enjoying the food and nature of the Pacific Northwest.