Braden Goyette
News Editor, Digital
Braden edits daily news and narrative, enterprise stories for CNN Digital.
How Botham Jean's mother is preparing to face the former police officer who killed her son
By Darran Simon, CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN Photographs by Allison V. Smith for CNNSeven months after an off-duty Dallas police officer shot Allison Jean's son, Botham, dead in his apartment, her attorney called with a warning: the 911 call capturing Botham's last moments was going to be played on the evening news.
Their neighborhood was flooded to save Houston
Story by Emanuella Grinberg, CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN Video by Madeleine Stix, CNN Photographs by Scott Dalton and Brittany Greeson for CNNTwo days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas in August 2017, as historic rainfall submerged parts of Houston, the Army Corps of Engineers released water from two reservoirs into a river running through one of the country's richest zip codes.
When a solo traveler went missing in Peru, it changed her family's lives completely
By Nicole Chavez, CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN Photographs by Desiree Rios for CNNShortly after his daughter Carla went missing in Peru, Carlos Valpeoz left behind his old life as a contractor in the Texas Hill Country and boarded a plane to find her. He brought only a backpack with him, unsure how long he'd be away from home.
When African Americans are killed by police, these lawyers get a phone call
By Darran Simon, CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN Photographs by John Nowak, CNNCivil rights attorney L. Chris Stewart was sitting in church in Atlanta on an April Sunday in 2015 when he received a Facebook message with a news article and a plea from a friend. A police officer had killed her cousin, Walter Scott, and she needed help.
These transgender soldiers are still allowed to serve. They want to prove their detractors wrong
By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN Photographs by Rachel Woolf for CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNNJordan Lively, a specialist in the US Army, hated using the women's facilities at basic training and wearing the cinched top of a woman's uniform.
In a survey of American Muslims, 0% identified as lesbian or gay. Here's the story behind that statistic
By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor Edited by Braden Goyette, CNNIn the United States, you could count the number of mosques like Masjid al-Rabia on two hands. It's a small community built on "five pillars of inclusivity," including pledges to be "women-centered," anti-racist LGBTQ-affirming and welcoming to a variety of Islamic traditions.
