Jaeah J. Lee

After their 10-year-old was killed at Robb Elementary a year ago, Kimberly Garcia and Angel Garza had to face unimaginable loss without the solace of privacy. The New York Times Magazine, May 2023. Photo by Stacy Kranitz

Randi Schofield is the sole provider for an ailing father and, at the same time, for her own children — a situation now common among Americans in their 30s and 40s. The New York Times Magazine, March 2023. Photo by Haruka Sakaguchi

When he was 15, Tommy M. Canady wrote a rap song that helped put him in prison for life. We studied how prosecutors used rap music against 200+ criminal defendants. The majority were Black men. Some only teenagers. Some sentenced to death. The New York Times, March 2022. Art by Chris Burnett.

Winner, AAJA Journalism Excellence Award for Investigative Reporting
Winner, Dori J. Maynard Justice Award
Finalist, Online Journalism Award

A look inside the endless loop of incarceration that begins the day a person is released from prison. The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, November 2021. Photo by Brian L. Frank

His death quickly became a symbol of anti-Asian hate. For his grieving family, so many questions lingered. The New York Times Magazine, August 2021 (cover story). Photo by Kevin Kunishi.

Mario Woods was the 906th person in the United States to be shot and killed by police in 2015…Here is the club no one wants to join, Gwen Woods thought, and she was its newest member. The California Sunday Magazine, August 2017 (cover story). Photo by Erica Deeman.

Winner, PEN America Los Angeles Literary Award, journalism.

If Nate Gartrell doesn't report on police misconduct in his county, who will? Columbia Journalism Review, February 2021. Photo by Peter Prato.

Winner, Mirror Award for excellence in media industry reporting, best profile.

“For a lot of people in our circle, she was the first person to put a face on the coronavirus. She was the wake-up call.” In “How We Quarantine,” The California Sunday Magazine, June 2020. Photos courtesy Adriane Hopper Williams.

When young men arrive at Pine Grove — California’s first and only remaining rehabilitation camp for serious or violent juvenile offenders — they notice the trees…The second thing they notice is that there is no barbed wire surrounding the property. The California Sunday Magazine and The Marshall Project, November 2018. Photo by Brian Frank.

Since 2008, her hourly pay had risen $2—a ten-cent raise over ten years, after adjusting for inflation. “No wonder I couldn’t come up with rent on the first,” she said. “There were things that had changed, but I didn’t realize it.” Topic Stories, September 2018. Photo by Maggie Shannon.

Winner, Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize

As the historic sights and sounds of Black liberation, free speech, and anti-war movements swirled around him, Mike Murase began to wonder where, exactly, he fit in. Topic Stories, February 2018. Photo by Zen Sekizawa.

McGinn would not get a conviction; the jurors would deadlock on the verdict for both officers. But over the next 18 months, she would try to lay out a blueprint for holding cops publicly accountable for fatal shootings—and she would experience, firsthand, why it was virtually impossible. Vice News, October 2016. Photo by Steven St. John.