about Me
I’m a freelance writer and journalist who covers food, health, agriculture, and environmental justice.
Over the past two decades, my work has reached hundreds of thousands 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 bring neighbors together.
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 I got into journalism, I spent over two decades working as a contemporary art curator, helping cultural organizations connect with audiences through exhibitions, public programs, and digital publishing.
At the Brooklyn Museum, I led interpretive strategy 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. In 2019, I was awarded an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Now, I mostly write about how we eat, what it says about our world, and the people creating solutions to our most urgent challenges.
I've written about southern 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.
lifelong
LEARNER
I hold a master’s degree in curatorial studies from Bard College and another in journalism from UC Berkeley.
As an educator, I’ve taught art history at the School of Visual Arts, thesis writing at the Rhode Island School of Design, and courses on capitalism and data science at UC Berkeley. I’ve been a guest at Sotheby’s, Kansas City Art Institute, SUNY Westchester Community College, and more.
Committed to helping others live their best lives, I’ve also earned certifications in health coaching, stress management, gut health, and Usui Reiki I and II.