Most recently, Trenton was a reporter on the global investigations team at The Associated Press, focusing on the use of public records to break news and bolster the U.S. report and investigative projects. In this role, he was part of the team that received a Pulitzer finalist citation in the investigative reporting category for “Lethal Restraint,” a three-year project that revealed how police officers across the U.S. subdued hundreds of victims with methods intended to be non-lethal.

Before that, Trenton was a producer who worked on a range of video and audio projects, including a feature-length documentary with PBS about the life and career of Dr. Anthony Fauci. He also worked on the Nerve Center, the newsroom hub at the AP headquarters in New York overseeing the global report. Trenton started at AP as its Haiti correspondent, in 2011, chronicling the reconstruction efforts following the massive 2010 earthquake and a deadly cholera outbreak.

Prior to AP, Trenton spent almost eight years as a Miami Herald staff writer and was part of the team that received a Pulitzer finalist citation in the breaking news category related to the Haiti 2010 earthquake. Overseas assignments included stints in Iraq, Guatemala and throughout the Caribbean. He also covered his share of hurricanes, trials and zoning meetings.

Trenton’s first reporting job was as a Haiti stringer for Reuters and a staff writer for The Haitian Times. Before that, he worked as an executive assistant, editor and occasional writer at the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Trenton has received fellowships from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University and the International Reporting Project (formerly the Pew Fellowship) at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, for which he traveled to Nigeria, hung out with movie stars in Lagos and wrote about the country’s then-nascent movie scene.

A Tucson native, Trenton grew up in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb and is a graduate of Reed College and Columbia University.