Select work for New Orleans Public Radio:
Fixing Claiborne — the highway that split a Black neighborhood — could come down to 2 proposals
Opposite: Louis Charbonnet III, outside the Charbonnet Funeral Home, with the Claiborne Expressway in view. Photo by me.
A vote could tear down Algiers bike lanes, leaving bicyclists worried about future road safety
Opposite: A protected bike lane on MacArthur Boulevard in Algiers. Photo by me.
Evacuating New Orleans: New plans account for rapidly intensifying storms, but are they enough?
Opposite: An "Evacuspot," or pick up point for City Assisted Evacuation. Photo by me.
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Select work as Southerly's Gulf Coast Correspondent:
After hurricanes, it’s harder than ever for Lake Charles’ Black residents to cast a ballot
Supported by Pulitzer Center; re-published by The Current and Louisiana Illuminator.
Opposite: early voting in Lake Charles. Photo by Katie Sikora.
They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic
Supported by Pulitzer Center; co-published with The Hechinger Report; re-published by Louisiana Illuminator.
Opposite: Lisa Morgan, a high school teacher in Lake Charles.
Photo by Katie Sikora.
‘It’s just a vicious cycle’: Evictions, homelessness surge in southwest Louisiana after hurricanes
Supported by Pulitzer Center; re-published by The Current and Louisiana Illuminator.
Opposite: Sasha Miller, a single mother in Lake Charles who became unhoused as a result of the hurricanes. Photo by Katie Sikora.
Field Notes: How we reported our series on Hurricane Laura recovery
Opposite: Me reporting in Lake Charles, October 2020. Photo by Katie Sikora.
Louisiana’s new hurricane survivor sheltering program could be a model for the future
Re-published by the Louisiana Illuminator and the Houma Courier
Opposite: A base camp shelter in Montegut, October 2021. Photo by me.
Without federal recognition, coastal tribes struggle to access FEMA aid
Co-reported and co-published with the Houma Courier
Opposite: Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar and Emily Torrey discuss plans to create resources that will empower tribal members and residents to properly document storm damage, November 2021. Photo by Kezia Setyawan.
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Other longform journalism, essays & projects:
Mutual Aid Through Food: Community Care Networks in New Orleans, an oral history project for the Southern Foodways Alliance
Be for a Blessing, The Oxford American, Summer/Fall 2020 issue
How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor, Powerlines Project (co-published by Scalawag Magazine, Southerly Magazine, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University).
Two Houses on the Eatonton-Milledgeville Road, The Bitter Southerner
The South's Ellis Island, The Bitter Southerner, featured in the The Bitter Southerner Reader: Volume 4
Old Bridge, New Cliques, Down East Magazine
Knowing Phyllis Austin, Down East Magazine
Descendant, Jewish Literary Journal