He has worked as a reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Arizona Republic and its television partner, KPNX-TV. His freelance work has appeared in Slate, ESPN: The Magazine, The American Spectator and the Los Angeles Times. He was the lead legal investigator in three police brutality cases against “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio and served as principal investigator in a number of multimillion dollar civil lawsuits. He also served as the communication and information services director for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Slivka earned his bachelor of journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1996.