I’m a 34-year-old writer and editor living in Alexandria, VA, just outside Washington, D.C.

I’m a former policy analyst with the Cato Institute, now a senior editor for Reason magazine, where I’m an award-winning investigative reporter covering criminal justice and civil liberties. From 2002 until 2009, I was a biweekly columnist with FoxNews.com. I’ve been published in lots of places, from Playboy to the Wall Street Journal, and have done lots of TV and radio interviews (see resume or published writing). My work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and excerpted by the Mississippi State Supreme Court. My reporting helped get a guy off death row, helped win a new trial and acquittal for a 13-year-old murder suspect, and led to the firing of a corrupt medical examiner in Mississippi. My reporting on the overuse of SWAT teams and police militarization has been profiled by the New York Times, National Journal, National Public Radio, and the Economist.

I’m originally from Greenfield, Indiana. I attended Indiana University and graduated in 1997 with a BA in journalism and political science.

I’m a music buff, an amateur photographer, and an admitted “dog person.”

One day, I’ll teach one of my dogs to retrieve a beer from the refrigerator on command.