I’m a freelance journalist and storyteller with two decades of experience crafting narratives for print and digital publications as well as exhibition spaces. My writing has appeared in ARTnews, Civil Eats, Inside Climate News, KQED, National Wildlife magazine, Offrange, and two Phaidon Press volumes.
As a journalist, I cover the intersections of food, health, and the environment, with an emphasis on solutions. I’ve reported stories on southern rice farmers, a dementia study turned cooking class, LGBTQ+ farmers’ mental health, California’s energy transition, and much more.
My reporting projects have been supported by fellowships with Civil Eats, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and a grant from the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources.
Before pivoting to journalism, I worked at nonprofit arts organizations across the U.S. I have a bachelor’s degree in art history from San Francisco State University and two master's degrees—one in curatorial studies from Bard College and another in journalism from U.C. Berkeley.
how I got here
living creatively
I started my career as a contemporary art curator, organizing exhibitions on Black identity and social justice — from a survey of Grace Jones’ influence on artists to a citywide exhibition on food for Nashville’s Office of Arts + Culture.
At the Brooklyn Museum, I led interpretive strategy for over 30 exhibitions. Later, I became 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 practice and is now my primary focus.
I continue to collaborate with arts organizations across the U.S. through storytelling projects, commissions, residencies, and more.
