Downtown Devil, Arizona State University
During the early years of my undergraduate career, I covered politics and the Arizona state legislature for the Downtown Devil, an Arizona State University student-led news publication based in downtown Phoenix. During that time, I reported on the impacts of a wave of proposed election interference bills in the Arizona Legislature on historically marginalized voter groups and their confidence in state elections.
Coverage of concern from voting rights advocacy groups in Arizona in the wake of a Republican-sponsored bill that sought to ban early and mail-in voting in Arizona and to require hand counts on all election ballots, 2022 legislative session.
At the start of the 2022 legislative session, Arizona lawmakers proposed multiple bills that targeted Arizona’s K-12 transgender youth population. Among these bills were measures to ban transgender girls from participating in school sports and a proposed ban on gender-affirming health care for minors. This story covered the reaction of Arizonans directly impacted by the proposed legislation and the national policy trend it refelcted.
Coverage of the City of Phoenix's participation in a drought mitigation plan that required the city to voluntarily give up a large part of its entitled Colorado River water shares in order to keep Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, from falling to dangerously low elevation levels in 2022.
