Trump Often Repeats These False, Misleading Immigration Claims. Here Are the Facts.
I teamed up with The Marshall Project's Senior Data Reporters Anna Flagg and Geoff Hing to conduct a natural language processing analysis of over 350,000 of Trump's public statements on Factba.se. We used cluster analysis to group the claims into 13 major claims about immigration, some of which the former president has repeated 500 times or more. I ran product and project management, helping coordinate a team of 13 reporters who each fact checked a claim. I also negotiated a partnership with DocumentedNY, a local newsroom focused on immigrants, that translated our fact checks in Spanish, Chinese and Haitian to distribute on WhatsApp and other direct messaging platforms.
Meet the Candidates Running for Judge in Cuyahoga County's General Election
The Marshall Project in partnership with Signal Cleveland, a local newsroom, created this interactive guide to help voters make informed decisions about the judges on their ballots for the 2024 General Election. We also partnered with multiple community members to report on the judge candidates and interviewed others to identify what information they needed prior to election day. The guide includes information about the judges, their backgrounds, and survey responses to community questions. I worked on the project as a product manager and conducted user research with a team of journalists, developers, and designers to design and develop the guide.
The Books Banned in Your State's Prisons
The Banned Books Project started in late 2022. Over the course of a year, thanks to community listening and collaborative design sessions with people close to the issue of book censorship in prisons, we produced a tool with banned book lists from about 24 states, reported stories about the confusion that people experience when sending books to prisons, and how drug smuggling policies can become de facto book bans. The project also showcases the use of ChatGPT to translate complex prison publication policies into simple summaries. I primarily worked on product design and product management, ai engineering and project management.
Out on Parole in Colorado? You can Vote.
As a follow-up engagement project to our story about voter misinformation in Colorado, I worked with mulitple people at The Marshall Project on a comicbook-style clarifying that formerly incarcerated people in Colorado can vote and explains how to do it. It's an example of an explainer born out of conversations with people affected by this issue.
Skills: Product and visual design, Collaboration with an illustrator, Project management
Texas Says Its Multi-Billion Dollar Border Operation Is Working. The Evidence Tells a Different Story.
For this story about Texas Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar Operation Lone Star, Keri Blakinger from The Marshall Project and I teamed up with Lomi Kriel and Perla Trevizo from ProPublica/Texas Tribune. Over the course of 9 months, we found that despite Abbot's claims of success, the operation was based on shifting and questionable metrics, leaving more questions than answers about its accomplishments.
Skills: Python, d3.js, Figma, Observable, GitHub, Project management
Millions of People With Felonies Can Now Vote. Most Don’t Know It.
For this story about felony disenfranchisement, I worked with Nicole Lewis to join state voting records with prison release records to identify how many people recently released from prison appeared in their state's voter rolls. I designed and built the scrolling visualization, an SMS campaign to reach the formerly incarcerated with a survey and I analyzed, cleaned and manipulated all the data for the story.
Skills: Python, d3.js, Figma, Twilio, CircleCI, Docker, Terraform, Typeform, GitHub & Observable