about Me
I’m a freelance writer and journalist contributing to a healthier, more just world through story. I cover food and the environment with a focus on public health, policy, and culture.
Over the past two decades, my storytelling has reached millions through print and digital media, exhibitions, and public events. I’ve written for KQED, Civil Eats, ARTnews, Gastronomica, Inside Climate News, and two Phaidon Press volumes, spoken to hundreds on a TEDx stage, curated exhibitions for the City of Nashville and the Brooklyn Museum, and organized a traveling pie social that sliced through divisive narratives to encourage civic dialogue and action.
In 2025, I was a Reporting Fellow with the Pulitzer Center and a Food Systems and Public Health Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future. I live in Baltimore with my wife and step-dog.
how I got here
living creatively
Before journalism school, I spent over two decades working as a curator, helping cultural institutions broaden access to the arts through education, exhibitions, and digital publishing.
At the Brooklyn Museum, I led the interpretation program for over 30 exhibitions, including ©Murakami, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, and Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005. Later, I became founding editor of the Art21 Magazine, a digital companion to the Emmy-nominated PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Now, I write solutions-oriented stories about food systems, public health, and environmental justice. I've written about southern Black farmers adopting eco-friendly rice growing practices, a dementia study presented as an online cooking class for Black and Latinx elders, a queer couple supporting LGBTQ+ farmers’ mental health, and more.
When I’m not writing, I enjoy shopping at independent bookstores and binge-watching British murder mysteries.