Meet the Journalists
Alice Driver
Investigative Reporter
Alice Driver is a James Beard Award-winning investigative journalist from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers, 2024). In 2024, the book won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. In 2025, Driver participated in The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency, whose former residents include Maya Angelou and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Katie Wilcox
Investigative Reporter & Editor (Joining late April 2026)
Katie is an accomplished multimedia investigative journalist and editor who spent six years as an investigative executive producer and reporter at 12News in Phoenix before joining Cronkite’s faculty in Fall 2025. At 12News, she served as a player-coach, leading breaking news coverage while growing audience and producing major accountability investigations, including reporting on how the largest debt collectors in the country use state courts to file thousands of lawsuits against Arizonans. She worked as an investigative data journalist at 9NEWS in Denver and the I-Team at Rocky Mountain PBS. Her work has been recognized with 15 regional Emmy Awards, a National Headliner, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the 2018 Investigative Reporter & Editor’s Award and 2018 National Edward R. Murrow Award.
Evan Wyloge
Data Journalist & Editor
Evan earned his master’s degree at Cronkite and previously served as an instructor and data editor for the News21 national investigative reporting initiative. He brings deep data reporting experience in Arizona, including at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. Evan is drawn to experimentation and civic innovation and has developed public-facing news tools such as the Arizona Dark Money Bot and QuizTheVote. His reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Center for Public Integrity, and The Guardian US, where his work revealed how Arizona’s 2021 redistricting diluted Native American voting power.
Shelby Grossman
Professor of AI and Investigative Reporting
Shelby joined the Howard Center at ASU in 2025. Most recently she was a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory and Stanford Cyber Policy Center and co-editor of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, which she co-founded. Previously she was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Memphis. Her primary research interests are in AI and trust and safety, online child safety, and online political disinformation.
Phil Maravilla
Investigative Journalist & Editor
Phil Maravilla was the senior producer of PBS NewsHour West, the outlet’s former West Coast bureau located at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University from 2021 to 2026. His experience as a producer took him to stints in Denver at Rocky Mountain PBS, 9News, HDNet’s World Report, and as a bureau chief for Al Jazeera America. Earlier in his career, he held producer roles for both CBS News, where he relaunched CBS’s Miami bureau, and ABC News in Washington, D.C., and New York. Maravilla has won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and an Overseas Press Club David Kaplan Award, among other Peabody, Emmy, Murrow, and regional Emmy honors. He holds a BA in political science from Stanford University.
Sophie Schaeffer
Intern
Sophie is currently an undergraduate student of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Barrett Honors College at ASU. She is also a 2026 Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow. Sophie previously worked as the visuals editor of the State Press, ASU’s student newspaper. Her documentary Echoes of a July Rain received an Award of Excellence from the BEA Media Arts Festival, Micro Documentary category, in 2026. Filmed in Kigali, Rwanda, the documentary examines how shifting weather patterns are forcing families to adapt and survive as climate change reshapes agriculture and threatens food security.
Lizzie Tomlin
Intern
Lizzie Tomlin is an MA student in the Investigative Program at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2024, she graduated from Mississippi State University with a BA in Political Science and Communications and was named Student of the Year. As a staff writer for The Reflector, the MSU school newspaper, she won won two SPJ Mark of Excellence awards in 2024, and from SEJC Best of the South contest, she got two 2nd place nods in 2025 and was named a Best News Writer in 2023.