Welcome.

I'm at Steven Monacelli. I'm an award winning  investigative journalist in Dallas, Texas, where I primarily focus on extremism, disinformation, social movements, and the influence of dark money in politics. I am a Special Investigative Correspondent for the Texas Observer and a Columnist for The Barbed Wire.

My work has drawn accolades, and also well-funded attempts to discredit it. I have received the The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award for revealing the identifies of far-right extremists, including government employees. I have also been sued for defamation by Republican megadonor Monty Bennett, who lost that case. My investigative reporting found that Bennett paid Crowds on Demand, a company that offers protestors-for-hire, to create a network of astroturf groups in Dallas, including Dallas Justice Now, a hoax Black Lives Matter organization that claimed without evidence that I committed racist harassment and domestic abuse in articles in the Dallas Express, a right-wing propaganda website news website Bennett also funds. In other words, a wealthy right wing donor paid a company to hire actors to pretend to be local activists, and published articles quoting those actors to discredit a journalist who reported on the donor's political activities.

You can directly support my work by becoming a member at my Patreon. 

I'm also the publisher of Protean Magazine, a nonprofit literary magazine, and am a co-founder of Apprentice Creative Space, a nonprofit creative community space in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas.

I am an alumnus of Northwestern University, where I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor's of Arts in Communications.