I’m a freelance writer and journalist living in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on stories at the intersection of food, health, and environmental justice and those most impacted by systemic inequities. Currently, I’m a mental health reporting fellow at Civil Eats and a reporting fellow with the Pulitzer Center.

Before I got into journalism, I was a curator of contemporary art, telling stories through exhibitions and writing essays about creative practice. At the Brooklyn Museum, I managed the interpretation program, overseeing wall labels and educational materials for over thirty exhibitions. Later, I became the founding editor of Art21 Magazine, a digital publication affiliated with the award-winning PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century.

I’ve written for a range of publications, including ARTnews, Civil Eats, Hyperallergic, Gastronomica, Public Art Review, Oakland North, two Phaidon Press volumes, and the anthology Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing. In 2019, I received the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

More recently, I’ve written stories about southern Black farmers adopting eco-friendly rice farming practices, community responses to Oakland’s first environmental plan, a dementia study that takes the form of a cooking class for Black and Latinx elders, and more.

People often tell me I “think like an artist,” which sums me up nicely. I’m insatiably curious, wake up with a drive to create, and can spot patterns in chaos, turning them into something meaningful.

When I’m not writing, I’m exploring nature with my wife and our entitled English Pointer, watching Miami Vice reruns, or coaching other women of color to recover from burnout.