Select work for New Orleans Public Radio:
From Crawfish Monica to praline beignets, New Orleans Jazz Fest food is back (radio feature)
As transit riders take masks off, RTA employees feel vulnerable: ‘We still have to stay safe’
Hurricane Ida resulted in illegal evictions across Louisiana. This bill aims to stop them.
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Select work as Southerly's Gulf Coast Correspondent:
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 (12/17/2020)
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 (2/17/2021)
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 (3/22/2021)
Opposite: Me reporting in Lake Charles, October 2020. Photo by Katie Sikora.
The population of Lake Charles, La. shrank more than any U.S. city in 2020 (4/20/2021)
The slow road to getting vaccinated after back-to-back hurricanes (5/5/2021) Co-published with The Current.
‘People are wiped out’: Costs pile up as hurricane season begins (6/23/21) Co-reported and co-published with the Texas Observer
A year after Hurricane Laura, southwest Louisiana ‘still in limbo’ (8/27/2021)
‘Do I even qualify?’: Deadline looms for $500 FEMA aid following Ida (9/21/21) Co-published with The Lens NOLA
Louisiana’s new hurricane survivor sheltering program could be a model for the future (10/27/21)
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 (11/22/21)
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 and essays:
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