About

I’m an independent writer and journalist based in Albany, New York. My work has appeared in Mother Jones magazine, The Drift, Nieman Lab, San Francisco Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, North Country Public Radio, and elsewhere. I’m also a member of and contributing writer to the new cooperative publication, Flaming Hydra. I often write about media and politics, with a special focus on New York State, where I grew up and presently live.

In 2023, I was named a writer-in-residence at Mesa Refuge to write a proposal for a book about radically reimagining the media system. I was also invited to be a writer-in-residence at Blue Mountain Center to continue this work. Since 2022, I’ve written a regular series for Popula called Mediaquake, which looks at the breakdown of the media system under modern capitalism. Shirley Wang interviewed me about Mediaquake for The Popula Planet here, and I recently started a related newsletter called media x capital, which you can read here.

Over the years, I have received a variety of awards for my work, including a Society of Professional Journalists award, an Award for Innovation in Communications from the University of California, Berkeley, a Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, and a national Foreign Language and Area Studies award, among other honors. My writing has been cited and followed by The Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, MSNBC, Vox, VICE, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and others. You can find a selection of my writing here.

I also have a background in script-writing and production. Recently, I co-produced The Highest Standard (2023), a forthcoming feature documentary film about the education system in the United States. I also worked as a producer and writer on the six-part documentary series, She Creates Change (2023), which focuses on the role of education for teenage girls around the world.

I’m a proud member of the freelancers chapter of the National Writers Union and the Media Power Collaborative. I sometimes work with newsrooms, journalists, and writers directly, in capacities that range from project management advising to subject-specific workshops. Currently, I’m working with New York Focus, New York’s only statewide, nonprofit newsroom, to run a community listening tour. In 2021, I was invited to teach writing for a course on journalism that was hosted by The New School and Rolling Stone. To find out more about my future availability for teaching or advisory work, contact me here.

I grew up on the northern edge of the North Country, and spend most of my time running around New York State or the West Coast.