Jenny Casas, Author at Reveal

Jenny Casas

Senior Radio Editor

Jenny Casas is a senior radio editor for Reveal. She was previously a narrative audio producer at The New York Times developing shows for the Opinion Department. She was in the inaugural cohort of AIR's Edit Mode: Story Editor Training. She has reported on the ways that cities systematically fail their people for WNYC, USA Today, City Bureau and St. Louis Public Radio. Casas is from California and is based in Chicago.

Prisons

Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires

by Michael Montgomery, Najib Aminy, Cynthia Rodriguez, Jenny Casas, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Kathryn Styer Martínez January 21, 2023March 3, 2023

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.

Accountability

The Suspect Detective

by Najib Aminy, Jenny Casas, Amy Mostafa, Nikki Frick, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Taki Telonidis, Brett Meyers and Al Letson December 17, 2022February 27, 2023

A Philadelphia homicide detective on the rise abused his power in bizarre and extreme ways. How did he get away with it for so long?

Accountability

The City (Revealed)

by Jenny Casas, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Al Letson November 12, 2022November 23, 2022

An illegal construction dump appears in a Chicago neighborhood and grows to six stories tall. Its story reveals the depths of political corruption.

An illustration shows people depositing ballots in a box as sinister eyes watch them from various cameras

Voting

The Ballot Boogeymen

by Ese Olumhense, Melissa Lewis, Nadia Hamdan, Michael Montgomery, Jenny Casas, Brett Myers, Maryam Saleh, Soo Oh, Farah Eltohamy, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Claire Mullen, Taki Telonidis and Al Letson October 29, 2022November 23, 2022

Extreme new laws built on Trump’s Big Lie crack down on a phantom problem: widespread voter fraud.

Prisons

Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires

by Michael Montgomery, Najib Aminy, Cynthia Rodriguez, Jenny Casas, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Steven Rascón, Taki Telonidis, Brett Meyers and Al Letson September 17, 2022September 29, 2022

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.

An illustration shows a surreal Kabul skyline melting into an upside-down reflection in colors of red, white, and blue

Human Rights

Afghanistan’s Recognition Problem

by Najib Aminy, Jenny Casas, Maryam Saleh, Dhruv Mehrotra, Soo Oh, Shawn Musgrave, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Steven Rascón, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis and Ike Sriskandarajah August 13, 2022August 19, 2022

“Do you recognize the Taliban?” The U.S. government, other countries and individual Afghans grapple with the question that will determine Afghanistan’s future.