ESW Clips
Here you’ll find my journalism portfolio with writing that explores a variety of life in the Sunshine State. These stories were published by Florida Weekly, where I was a staff writer and photographer from 2007 to 2021.
Contact
1001lightningstrikes@gmail.com
213-651-8884 (mobile)
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FEATURES
Travel, community, the arts, government, obituaries, cannabis, and more
Living in Fear: FPA Second Place, General News Story; Human Trafficking: FPA First Place, General News Story
Harlem, Florida: Sugar town remains a segregated Black community, its residents isolated by history, geography and economic challenges
Harlem, Florida: FPA First Place, Community History; Naples Press Club Young Print Journalist of the Year Award
SWFL Art Watch: 11 local visual artists you have to check out
CANNABIS BEAT
Florida’s route to legalizing medical marijuana
Weed at Work, June 2019 (FPA First Place, Health Medical & Science Reporting)
Profiles and Q&As with novelist Randy Wayne White and lead singer Debra Biela of Deb & the Dynamics
Driving Florida’s Backroads
Where Will They Go? Greyhound races in Florida must stop by the end of next year. Thousands of dogs will need homes.
Where will they go: FPA Claudia Ross Memorial Award, Investigative Reporting
Aid Delayed: Seven months after Cat 5 Hurricane Michael slammed the panhandle, devastation remains
Aid Delayed: FPA Second Place, General News Story
THE LIVES THEY LED
A year-end collection of obituaries featuring South Floridians who were lost that year
Lives Led, 2008 (FPA Second Place, Obituaries); Lives Led, 2020 (FPA First Place, Obituaries)
15 MINUTES
A weekly column about the lives and dreams of people I met here and there, at random
Thousands of purple martins roost downtown each summer
Around Lake Okeechobee: Exploring the people and places outside the perimeter of Florida’s 730-square-mile body of water
ADDITIONAL FEATURE STORIES
Including coverage of Hurricane Irma’s aftermath, new Medicare benefits aimed at opioids, and more
Addiction Prescription: FPA First Place, Health & Medical Reporting
48 Hours in Key West Ticket to Ride: South Florida by bus and train
New Urbanism: The Anti-Sprawl Movement in SWFL
Living with HIV
Feeling Florida’s Grooves: A not at all comprehensive survey of some of the best rock ‘n’ roll coming out of South Florida
Silver Rush: All Bow To The King of SWFL Fish
Silver Rush: FPA First Place, Outdoor and Recreation
Land of Uncertainty: 20 percent of Lee County land is restricted
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Planning a mission to Mars and a home base on the Moon…meanwhile, it’s hotter than ever on Earth
Fossiles … Florida’s Past Unearthed—One Find At A Time
Opioid Death: The drug epidemic is hitting SWFL hard
Opioid Death: FPA Second Place, In-Depth Reporting (Non-Investigative)
Where memory, nature and 19th century photography intersect
Syd Kitson: He’s building a sustainable city
Cruisin’ along: Our east-west corridor through the wilderness
