Projects
My Work
आकांक्षा
Ambition
I tend to say yes to the challenging stuff that most people in a newsroom shake their heads to (or roll their eyes). For my investigation into non-profit exploitation in the Triangle soccer community, I followed a tip to a paper trail of hundreds of physical documents. I read through each and every file, board minute and public records request to uncover years of corruption.
The decades-long internal takeover and exploitation of Rainbow Soccer
According to hundreds of documents obtained by The DTH, executives and board members of and concerning both organizations siphoned Rainbow’s players, fields and resources to propel TU and its executives’ financial success — at the expense of local Chapel Hill families searching for affordable opportunities for competitive youth soccer.
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Intellectual Curiosity
At its heart, my investigations are driven by an inherent need to know why? Why are things the way they are? Why did so and so do such and such? Why does a system operate in a certain way? They why leads to who? What? When? How? Perpetual intellectual curiosity keeps me wanting to learn about anything and everything. It ensures I am forever in pursuit of knowledge.
Despite record number of student organizations, Undergraduate Senate sees decreased funding
Despite a record number of applicants, the UNC Undergraduate Senate will have significantly less money this budgetary cycle to allocate to registered student organizations. Nayan Bala, the chair of the Undergraduate Senate's Finance and Appropriations Committee, said there will be about $200,000 less for student organizations in the fall of 2025 due to a change in the Univesity's accounting practices.
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Empathy
I will never sacrifice my humanity for my reporting. Every decision I make in pursuit of a story is ethically and morally weighed by my empathy. If I were in the source's shoes, how would I feel in this cicumstance, in this situation? Does a line of questioning exploit a person's vulnerability? Will my reporting process do more harm than the writing would do good? At the end of the day, my reporting looks to serve my community and if my writing is at their expense then I cannot claim I serve them.
From the Ground Up
In an international reporting project, I, alongside a team of student photographers, videographers and designers, traveled to Maui to report on the aftermath of the 2023 Lahaina wildfires, which devastated the island and claimed 102 lives. Journalists prior to us were careless, extractive and ignorant of Lahaina residents' trauma. The story follows Mia Palacio - an 18-year-old girl who survived the fires and lost her home - contextualized by Maui's affordable housing crisis and Bill 9, a policy attempt to ease the crisis. My team and I's goal was to conduct ethical, trauma-informed journalism that told Mia's story with care.
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