American Rehab: A Venomous Snake

Shoshana Walter is a press reporter for Reveal, covering criminaljustice She and press reporter Amy Julia Harris exposed how courts throughout the nation are sending out accuseds to rehabs that are little bit more than rewarding work camps for personal market. Their work was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Reward in national reporting. It likewise won the Knight Award for Civil Service, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting, and an Edward R. Murrow Award, and was a finalist for the Selden Ring, IRE and Livingston Awards. It led to many federal government examinations, 2 criminal probes and 5 federal class-action claims declaring slavery, labor infractions and scams.

Walter’s examination on America’s armed guard market exposed how armed guard licenses have actually been distributed to people with histories of violence, even people disallowed by courts from owning weapons. Walter and press reporter Ryan Gabrielson won the 2015 Livingston Award for Young Reporters for national reporting based on the series, which triggered brand-new laws and an overhaul of California’s regulativesystem For her 2016 examination about the predicament of “trimmigrants,” marijuana employees in California’s Emerald Triangle, Walter embedded herself in unlawful mountain grows and farms. There, she came across an epidemic of sex abuse and human trafficking in the market– and a criminal justice system focused more on the unlawfuldrugs The story triggered legislation, a criminal examination and grass-roots efforts by the community, consisting of the starting of an employee hotline and safe home.

Walter started her profession as a cops press reporter for The Journal in Lakeland, Florida, and formerly covered violent criminal offense and the politics of policing in Oakland, California, for The Bay Person. Her narrative nonfiction as a regional press reporter amassed a national Sigma Delta Chi Award and a Gold Medal for Civil Service from the Florida Society of News Editors. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she has actually been a Dart Center Ochberg fellow for journalism and injury at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim fellow in criminal justice journalism. She is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, workplace.

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Laura Starecheski is a senior radio editor for Reveal. Their radio work at Reveal has actually won a national Edward R. Murrow, a duPont-Columbia, and a Peabody, to name a few awards. Formerly, they reported on health for NPR’s science desk and took a trip the United States with host Al Letson for the Peabody Acclaimed program “State of the Re: Union.” Their Radiolab story “Goat on a Cow” won a silver award for finest documentary from the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Structure, and SOTRU’s “The Hospital Always Wins” won a national Murrow Award. They have actually been a Rosalynn Carter fellow for mental health journalism and a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan. Starecheski is based in Philadelphia.

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Ike Sriskandarajah is a senior press reporter, manufacturer, and fill-in host for Reveal. He has actually worked on jobs that have actually won an Emmy, 2 medals from Investigative Press reporters and Editors, and awards from Third Coast, the Education Writers Association, and the New York City Associated Press Association. He was a narrative audio manufacturer at The New York City Times, making investigative episodes for “The Daily.” Sriskandarajah is from Wisconsin and reports from New york city City.

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Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior press reporter and manufacturer for Reveal. She’s likewise been a senior author for Beauty Salon and Quick Business. Her work has actually appeared in The New York City Times, Wanderer, Mom Jones, Slate and on NPR’s “All Things Thought about.”

Her coverage has actually won national awards, consisting of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award 2 years in a row, an Online News Association Award, a Webby Award and a Society of Ecological Reporters Award. Mieszkowski has a bachelor’s degree from Yale University. She is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, workplace.

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Amy Julia Harris is a press reporter for Reveal, covering susceptiblecommunities She and Reveal press reporter Shoshana Walter exposed how courts throughout the nation are sending out accuseds to rehabs that are little bit more than rewarding work camps for personal market. Their work was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Reward in national reporting and won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional Reporters. It likewise led to 4 federal government examinations, consisting of 2 criminal probes and 4 federal class-action claims declaring slavery and scams.

Harris was a Livingston Award for Young Reporters finalist for her examination into the absence of federal government oversight of religious-based day cares, which led to disasters for kids in Alabama and somewhere else. In a previous job for Reveal, she discovered prevalent squalor in a public real estate complex in the San Francisco Bay Location and traced it back to mismanagement and scams in the distressed public real estate company.

Prior to signing up with Reveal, Harris was an education press reporter at The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. She has actually likewise composed for The Seattle Times, Half Moon Bay Evaluation, and Projects and Elections Politics Publication.

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Najib Aminy is a manufacturer for Reveal. Formerly, he was an editor at Flipboard, a news aggregation start-up, and assisted guide the business’s editorial and curation practices and policies. Prior to that, he hung around reporting for papers such as Newsday and The Indianapolis Star. He is the host and manufacturer of an independent podcast, “Some Sound,” which is based out of Oakland, California, and was included by Apple, The Guardian and The Paris Evaluation. He is a long-lasting New york city Knicks fan, has a quickly-to- be-named kittycat and is an item of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism. Aminy is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, workplace.

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Amy Mostafa (she/they) is the production supervisor for Reveal. She is a UC Berkeley School of Journalism alum, where she focused on audio and information journalism as a Dean’s Benefit Fellow and an ISF Scholar. She has actually reported on science, health and the environment in Anchorage for Alaska Public Media and on local government in Berkeley and San Francisco for KQED. Her work likewise has actually appeared on NPR, KALW and KALX. Mostafa holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and public law. She has actually most just recently reported on real estate and aging in the Bay Location. She is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, workplace.

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Jim Briggs III is the senior sound designer, engineer and author for Reveal. He monitors post-production and makes up initial music for the general public radio program and podcast. He likewise leads Reveal’s efforts in structure for information sonification and live efficiencies.

Prior to signing up with Reveal in 2014, Briggs combined and tape-recorded for customers such as WNYC Studios, NPR, the CBC and American Public Media. Credits consist of “Market,” “Selected Shorts,” “Death, Sex & & Cash,” “The Longest Shortest Time,” NPR’s “Ask Me Another,” “Radiolab,” “Freakonomics Radio” and “Soundcheck.” He likewise was the sound re-recording mixer and sound editor for a number of PBS tv documentaries, consisting of “American Experience: Walt Whitman,” the 2012 Tea ceremony documentary “City center” and “The Supreme Court” miniseries. His music credits consist of albums by R.E.M., Paul Simon and Kelly Clarkson.

Briggs’ work with Reveal has actually been acknowledged with an Emmy Award (2016) and 2 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards (2018, 2019). Formerly, he was part of the group that won the Dart Award for Quality in Coverage of Injury for its work on WNYC’s hourlong documentary unique “Living 9/11.” He has actually taught noise, radio and music production at The New School and Eugene Lang College and has a master’s degree in media research studies from The New School. Briggs is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, workplace.

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Fernando Arruda is a sound designer, engineer and author for Reveal. As a multi-instrumentalist, he contributes to the initial music, modifying and blending of the weekly public radio program and podcast. He has actually held 4 O-1 visas for people with amazing capabilities. His work has actually been acknowledged with Peabody, duPont-Columbia, Edward R. Murrow, Gerald Loeb, Third Coast and Association of Music Producers awards, along with Emmy and Pulitzer elections. Prior to signing up with Reveal, Arruda visited as an global DJ and taught music innovation at Dubspot and ESRA International Movie School. He worked at Antfood, an imaginative audio studio for media and television advertisements, and co-founded a film-scoring shop called the Manhattan Composers Collective. He worked with customers such as Marvel, MasterClass and Samsung and advertising agency such as Framestore, Trollbäck+ Business, DOLLAR and Vice. Arruda launches speculative music under the alias FJAZZ and has actually carried out with lots of jazz, classical and pop ensembles, such as SFJAZZ Monday Night Band, Art&& Sax quartet, Krychek, Dark Inc. and the New York City Arabic Orchestra. His credits in the podcast and radio world consist of NPR’s “51 Percent,” WNYC’s “Bad Feminist Pleased Hour” and its live broadcast of Orson Welles’ “The Hitchhiker,” Wondery’s “Investigator Trapp,” MSNBC’s “Why Is This Taking place?” and NBC’s “Born to Guideline,” to name a couple of. Arruda likewise has a broad brochure of made up music for theatrical, orchestral and chamber music formats, some of which has actually premiered worldwide. He holds a master’s degree in movie scoring and structure from NYU Steinhardt. The initial music he makes with Jim Briggs for Reveal can be discovered on Bandcamp.

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Claire Mullen worked at The Center for Investigative Reporting up until September 2017. is an associate sound designer and audio engineer for Reveal. Prior to signing up with Reveal, she was an assistant manufacturer at Radio Ambulante and worked with KALW, KQED, the Association of Independents in Radio and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She studied liberal arts and media research studies at Scripps College.

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Andy Donohue is the managing editor for jobs for Reveal. He’s modified Reveal’s examinations into the treatment of migrant kids in federal government care, Amazon’s labor practices, rehab work camps and sexual abuse in the janitorial market. He’s been on groups that have actually two times been Pulitzer Reward finalists and have actually won Investigative Press reporters and Editors, Edward R. Murrow, Online News Association, Third Coast International Audio Celebration, Gerald Loeb, Sidney Hillman Structure and Emmy awards. He formerly assisted develop and lead Voice of San Diego, served on the IRE board for 8 years and is an alumnus of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. Donohue is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, workplace.

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Kevin Sullivan is the executive manufacturer of Reveal’s public radio program and podcast. He signed up with Reveal from the everyday news publication reveal “Here & & Now,” where he was senior handling editor. There, he assisted lead the growth of the program as part of a distinct collaboration in between NPR and WBUR. Prior to radio, Sullivan worked as a documentary manufacturer. That work took him all over the world, with stories varying from reconciliation in Northern Ireland to the refugee crisis throughout the war in Kosovo.

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sullivan released an investigative system for CBS in Baltimore, where he led examinations on bioterrorism and the U.S. federal government’s capability to react to future risks. He likewise went into regional concerns. His exposé of regional judges discovered prevalent lax sentencing of repeat-offender inebriated motorists. Other examinations consisted of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests, and medical professionals who offered OxyContin for money. Sullivan has actually won numerous journalism awards, consisting of a number of Edward R. Murrow awards, a Third Coast/ Richard H. Driehaus Structure Competitors award and an Emmy. He has an MBA from Boston University.

Sullivan is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, workplace.

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Al Letson is a playwright, entertainer, film writer, reporter, and the host of Reveal. Soul-stirring, interdisciplinary work has actually amassed Letson national acknowledgment and dedicated fans.

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