Hi, I’m Zara.

I’m a dual British-American citizen who grew up in rural England. I graduated from Brown University in 2022 with A.B. degrees in history and classics. There, I interned with The Boston Globe’s Rhode Island bureau, was editor in chief of a campus satire publication, contributed to the Brown Classical Journal and wrote a screenplay produced by Brown Motion Pictures.

I cut my teeth as a reporter with a year at the Morning Sentinel, one of the Maine Trust for Local News’ local dailies. I wrote on issues spanning local government, business, crime, courts, education and more as a general assignment reporter. I then covered housing and real estate statewide for about two years at the Bangor Daily News. My stories examined Maine’s affordability crisis from every angle. One even spurred an arrest, indictment and $2.5 million judgement against a fraudulent home contractor.

I’m now finishing my master’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School, where I report for the D.C.-based Investigative Lab, cover health for Medill News Service and concentrate in data journalism. There, I interned with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s investigative team, served as an editing fellow and contributed to ProPublica’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist series "Rx Roulette."

I start as a local news reporter with NOTUS/The Star in June, where I’ll cover people, politics and power in D.C.

You can explore some of my portfolio on this site.