about Me
I’m a Bay Area-born journalist and lifelong storyteller. My reporting focuses on food, agriculture, and the environment, highlighting the people driving change.
I've written about southern farmers adopting eco-friendly rice-growing practices, a dementia study turned cooking class for Black and Latine elders, a queer couple organizing for LGBTQ+ farmers’ mental health, and a James Beard Award–winning chef.
My work has appeared in ARTnews, Civil Eats, Inside Climate News, KQED, National Wildlife magazine, Offrange, and two Phaidon Press books, among other publications. In 2025, I was a fellow with the Pulitzer Center as well as the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.
I earned my bachelor’s degree in art history and hold two master's degrees: one in curatorial studies from Bard College and another in journalism from UC Berkeley.
how I got here
living creatively
I started my career as a contemporary art curator, mounting exhibitions ranging from a survey of Grace Jones’ influence on artists to a public art exhibition commissioned by Nashville's Office of Arts and Culture.
At the Brooklyn Museum, I led interpretive strategy for over 30 exhibitions before becoming founding editor of Art21 Magazine, a digital companion to the Emmy-nominated PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century.
In 2019, I received an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
I’ve also taught courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, guest lectured at Sotheby's, and delivered a TEDx Talk about With Food in Mind, a nonprofit project I created to teach kids about healthy eating through visual art.
Writing has always been part of my creative work, and after two decades in the arts, I made it the center of my practice.
I continue to collaborate with arts organizations across the U.S. through storytelling projects, commissions, residencies, and more.
