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, New York Focus, 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 twice invited to attend writing residencies at Blue Mountain Center to continue this work in 2023 and 2024, respectively. From 2021 to 2023, I wrote 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 by numerous outlets (The Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, MSNBC, Vox, VICE, etc.), policy & advocacy organizations (Southern Poverty Law Center, Planned Parenthood, etc.), policymakers, 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, the Media Power Collaborative, and News Futures. I sometimes work with newsrooms, journalists, and writers directly, in the form of ongoing collaborations or 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.