Kathleen Davis

A feature on the mismatch of days off between schools and workplaces and the impact on women's careers.  

On the cuspy of 42 million Americans are set to losing crucial food support, I explored the grassroots mutual aid movement fueled by moms.

I conecptulized and edited this 6-month investigation that exposed food and worker safety, patterns of cover up of harassment and misconduct, an elaborate branding scheme, misleading environmental claims and more.

After the 32-hour workweek was left on the cutting room floor of the United Auto Workers contract negotiations, I explored the history of the 5-day 40-hour work week and argued way the current push for a 4-day work week might not be the progress we’re looking for. 

To write this story about parent’s feelings about their kids' relationship to technology I surveyed nearly 400 parents and spoke to numerous experts. 

I wrote this exclusive feature on how the ACLU had been secretly planning for how they would fight back against Trump’s first presidency before the 2016 election. I was granted unprecedented access and spent several months reporting the story.

The 2022 narrative mini-series, Ambition Diaries which ran on The New Way We Work was a project I created, securing the partnership of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. I  hired 12 journalists and photographers to record intimate conversations between a diverse group of mothers and daughters across the country. 

The result was a multimedia, written, visual and audio experience that was nominated as 2023’s Podcast Academy’s Best Business Podcast.

As a new school year began with many schools across the country in pandemic shut down, this 5-story package and podcast mini-series was among the first to explore the issue from several angles: how teachers were dealing with it, public and private solutions for working parents, the how tech was helping and failing, and how to realistically mitigate health concerns. (The series was later turned into ongoing education coverage)

Before SCOTUS ruled on Affirmative Action in June 2023, I sent reporters out across the country to report from three of the eight states (Michigan, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire) that had already banned Affirmative Action years before to explain how the ruling would impact not just higher education but public and private sector jobs too.