StoryCorps

As a freelance fact-checker for StoryCorps, I conducted research to confirm every detail in the segment up to National Public Radio’s broadcast standards. This means conducting phone interviews with the participants’ friends and family and with doctors, police departments, reporters, historians, subject-matter experts, etc., depending on the needs of the segment. It also means reading available literature, finding dates, and citing statistics.

The following are a few selected segments I fact-checked for StoryCorps which aired on NPR’s Morning Edition or Weekend Edition Saturday:

• “From Internment to Disney”

• “Remembering the Pain of a Mother’s Deportation”

• “One Woman’s Story of Mental Illness, Recovery, and Doing Her Own Dishes”

• “As a 10-year-old, He Played an Unexpected Role in Apollo 11”

• “A Woman Providing Life-Saving Aid at the Mexico-Arizona Border”

• “Nation’s First Active-Duty Military Contingent Marches in Pride”

• “Remembering Dr. Tiller”

• “104-year-old WWII Veteran Remembers Fake Tanks, Sound Effects in Top-Secret ‘Ghost Army’”

• “Community” episode of Delta’s To and From podcast

Interzine

I published an article on Interzine in September 2020, which uses my honors history thesis research on Cleveland's Italian-American community to explore the anti-Black racism of people who weren't always considered white and address what that can teach us about racism and whiteness in America.

ACLU 100

In 2018, I worked with the curator of the ACLU’s centennial exhibition to research, organize, and plan the historical components of the event.