With master’s degrees in journalism from UC Berkeley and curatorial studies from Bard College, I bring a unique perspective to my writing. Whatever the topic, I tackle every story with a commitment to rigorous reporting and a deep respect for cultural histories. I’m drawn to stories that pose hard questions about our future and shed light on possibilities.

As a journalist, I've written about southern Black farmers adopting eco-friendly rice practices, community responses to Oakland’s first environmental plan, an online cooking class tied to dementia research, and mental health challenges faced by LGBTQ+ farmers.

Currently, I’m a reporting fellow with the Pulitzer Center and a Food Systems & Public Health Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. In 2024, I was a Mental Health Reporting Fellow at Civil Eats, where I reported on the intersection of agriculture and psychological well-being.

Before pivoting to journalism, I spent years as a curator and writer, working with cultural institutions to make art accessible to diverse audiences through exhibitions, essays, and digital platforms. At the Brooklyn Museum, I led interpretation for over thirty exhibitions, and later became the founding editor of Art21 Magazine, a digital companion to the Emmy-nominated PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century. 

My writing has appeared in outlets like ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Gastronomica, and Public Art Review, as well as in two Phaidon Press volumes, the anthology Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation, and multiple exhibition catalogs. In 2019, I received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for The Ostracon, a collaborative project rethinking how we write about contemporary art.

People often say I think like an artist—a compliment that sums me up nicely. I’m insatiably curious, driven to create, and skilled at turning complex ideas into something meaningful.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and our entitled English Pointer.