I've been covering the Cowboy State since July 2024 as a reporter at KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio). Highlights include tracking down the pollution plaguing the largest development in Jackson's history with WyoFile, KHOL. Wyoming Public Radio  and the A1 slot of the Salt Lake Tribune. 

Throughout my reporting, I seek to bring human-centric stories to  the forefront of policy analysis and solutions-oriented coverage. 

My reporting on immigration enforcement in Jackson ranges from an award-winning profile of an immigration attorney, an audio diary with the wife of an ICE detainee, an award-winning social media graphic and explainer on new laws impacting immigrants, a check-in with a mental health provider with insight on the toll ICE activity has in the Tetons.  

As for environmental reporting, I broke news on Teton County's unprecedented look into testing water for chronic wasting disease, given the state's largest herd's proximity to the town's major drinking source. I was also the first to report on the Department of the Interior's order to remove signs that "disparage Americans," the effort to revive them, and the Indigenous history they had included, plus the public feedback database asking for more signs, not less.  I also covered a three-part series on how the future technology of fencing is a win for wildlife, but could eliminate the cowboy. 

I take an enterprise approach to much of my coverage, looking into the impact of 2025's sweeping federal cuts  from the perspective of  museums and school programs to COVID-era preventive health care grants. I looked at global imports tariffs hitting coffee roasteries and outdoor sport retailers.  I also wrote a profile on Jackson's town-wide group chat, the town rodeo's famous mutton busters and the local ski resort's rambunctious April Fool's Day festivities. 

For my biggest project to date, I covered the way Rock Springs, Wyoming, has led its most public reckoning to date when it comes to a tragic moment in its history. In a three-part series, I  learned that the past doesn't define the hardworking town but shapes its present day conversations on immigration enforcement and how it lives up to its heritage as the "Home of 56 Nationalities." The stories were published in KHOL, Wyoming Public Radio, WyoFile and NPR: 

A Wyoming town massacred its Chinese immigrant workers 140 years ago. This summer, descendants return to dig for the Chinatown ‘burn layer’ | New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history  | Q&A with Michael Luo: 140 years later, a massacre in Rock Springs shows immigrant’s resilience and persistence 

A 40 minute podcast episode combining coverage from July and September 2025 is slated for production July 2026 as part of Wyoming Public Radio's Modern West podcast.