Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.
Author Archives: Ike Sriskandarajah
Senior Reporter and Producer
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.
Listen to American Rehab, a podcast series from Reveal
Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid, shadow workforce.
Homewreckers
After the housing bust, these men destroyed the American dream of homeownership. Learn how they did it and what that means for our economy now.
Harpooned by Facebook
As the pandemic sends more people online for entertainment, we look at how companies such as Facebook turn information about their users into profits.
Homewreckers
After the housing bust, these men destroyed the American dream of homeownership. Learn how the Homewreckers did it and meet a woman who fought back.
Year of return
We reflect on how the legacy of slavery has reverberated through the generations to the present.
Harpooned by Facebook
As smart devices become a bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies profit from information about their users.
No country for sanctuary seekers
This week, we look into places that offer sanctuary to those immigrants – and what the conflict between federal and local policies means for them.
Standing Rock and beyond
On Reveal, we team up with Inside Energy to go behind the scenes at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and meet the young people who started the oil pipeline protests.
Toxic burden
Reveal goes to places where poisonous chemicals are so deadly that they can devastate a town. And they all have one thing in common: The people in these towns are overwhelmingly black, brown and poor.