Ike Sriskandarajah is an Emmy award-winning senior reporter and producer for Reveal. He has also won awards from Third Coast, the Education Writers Association and the New York Associated Press Association. He was a narrative audio producer at The New York Times, making investigative episodes for "The Daily," and once tracked down the kids who appear on “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” Before that, he worked at Youth Radio in Oakland, California, and PRI's "Living on Earth" in Boston. His own reporting has appeared on "Radiolab," NPR News, "Marketplace" and The Atlantic, among other outlets. Sriskandarajah is from Wisconsin, graduated from Brown University and reports from New York City.
Sports, theater and concert fans are itching for events to start happening again. So are clever ticket sellers who cash in on unsuspecting customers.
From problems with vote-by-mail systems to voter suppression, we examine the potential for chaos in the 2020 elections.
Wildfires are getting bigger, more expensive and closer to people’s homes. We examine how wildfires got so dangerous – and how some are fighting back.
For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves.
One man’s journey into Cenikor leads to almost two years of hard labor. The program will change him. But can it help Chris Koon with his addiction?
Before sunrise, a line of passenger vans heads to job sites across Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They carry squads of unpaid laborers.
Cenikor rises from the ashes, thanks to an inventor of NFL football pads, the war on drugs and the endorsement of an American president.
He’s a liar, a killer and a wannabe country singer. Luke Austin creates Cenikor in the image of a cult. But graft and violence nearly destroy it.
After building a small fortune, Synanon’s megalomaniac leader turns the revolutionary rehab into a violent cult.
Reveal’s American Rehab exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce.
