ABOUT KIRA

I am currently working as a reporter at The Appeal, a news website focused on criminal justice issues.

I have also covered politics and voting rights issues for ThinkProgress. From 2014 to 2018, my work focused on elections and I traveled across the country — from the Alabama coast to the Native American reservations of South Dakota and Nevada — to report untold stories and uplift the voices of marginalized communities. My coverage of voting rights issues has helped to shape legislation and has been cited in federal litigation.

I was selected in 2018 to be an inaugural fellow with Columbia University's new Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights to write about the amendment that will appear on the Florida ballot this November to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions.  

I was also named a 2019 reporting fellow with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a 2018 digital media fellow with the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. I am a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and have attended the group's annual investigative reporting and data reporting conferences.

Before joining ThinkProgress, I worked as a legal reporter for Law360, a business law newswire based in New York City. Before that, I worked for the Chicago Innocence Project and in 2011, my investigative reporting helped to develop evidence that led to a wrongfully convicted man being released from Illinois prison.

I am a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and I have called Maryland, Illinois, New York, Washington, D.C., and Buenos Aires home. 

When I'm not writing or traveling the United States for my next story, I can be found traveling for fun, cooking, taking care of my backyard fig tree, exploring Washington, D.C., eating, cooking, reading, listening to podcasts, biking, or doing yoga.  

I am also passionate about photojournalism and multimedia reporting. All photography on this website is original.