Greene joined the Center in 2011 after serving as The Miami Herald’s investigations and government editor. He led Center investigations into contracts and connections at the Department of Energy, was part of the reporting teams for Poisoned Places, Hard Labor and Toxic Clout, and edited Mystery in the Fields, a series exposing rare kidney deaths among laborers. His Center investigations have been honored with an Emmy Award and recognition from the White House Correspondents' Association, Harvard University, Columbia University and Sigma Delta Chi. At The Miami Herald, Greene was lead editor for Neglected To Death, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist investigation exposing abuses in Florida group homes. He was part of four Herald reporting teams awarded the Pulitzer Prize (twice) or named finalists (twice), and spent nine years as an investigative reporter exposing slave-like conditions in Florida’s farm fields, deadly air cargo plane crashes and public corruption. A journalism graduate of VCU, Greene received a Masters in Nonfiction Writing from the Johns Hopkins University and taught graduate journalism at the University of Miami. He is author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard’s Fight To Save Her Town.