Random thoughts from a formerly-incarcerated scholar and educator.
PhD and lived experience student and educator in criminology. Chicago/Champaign, Illinois.
This is a site about surviving violent trauma, the child welfare system, institutional care, and living with disabilities written by an institutional care survivor living with complex trauma and physical disability.
News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.
I'm writing my first book—it's a memoir. I'm using this Substack to share my experience and what I'm learning along the way. I write stories, tips, and review my favorite memoirs.
A newsletter about my investigations into prisons, jails, and police. Here I'll share the stories and backstories behind my journalism.