Transgender Youth Health

Transgender Youth Health

This article received the 2019 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism GOLD award for Best Long Hard Feature More and more children are openly identifying as a gender that’s different or more complex than the sex they were born into. About 9,000 Wisconsin middle...
Nursing Behind Bars

Nursing Behind Bars

Nursing Behind Bars: Putting the Patient Before the Prisoner Nursing Behind Bars Putting the Patient Before the Prisoner UW-Madison School of Nursing Forward Nursing cover story, Fall 2018 It was super interesting to be granted access inside Dodge Correctional...
Big Ideas at UW-Madison

Big Ideas at UW-Madison

University of Wisconsin-Madison is a big-idea powerhouse. Throughout its 169-year history, and particularly from 1972-2016, it has ranked in the top five research universities in the country—not by accident, but by a meticulously cultivated ecosystem fueled by some of...

2020 update: More than five years ago, and several months before the shooting death of Tony Robinson, I started to notice protests led by a group called the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition. At the time, I was responsible for a monthly one-page Q&A in Madison...