She is a 2017 investigative reporting fellow at the Fund for Investigative Journalism and Schuster Institute at Brandeis University, working on a story about human rights in detention. Previously she was a staff reporter at Mother Jones, covering law enforcement after Ferguson. Her work has been featured in VICE News, Pop Up Magazine, The Atlantic, Guardian, and others. In 2015, she was part of a team at Mother Jones that won an Online Journalism Award for a series on the cost of gun violence in America. Jaeah is one of ivoh's 2017 Restorative Narrative Fellows.