For nearly two decades, I have written about everything from social justice, solutions, urbanism, real estate and housing as a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2020 I co-founded Empowerment Avenue, a nonprofit supporting creative work from incarcerated people, and oversaw its writing cohort, where we supported hundreds of stories publishing in mainstream media outlets from incarcerated writers around the country.

You can view my topics of coverage in the clips sections above. I began writing about real estate, architecture and design at the beginning of my career. My work then focused on U.S. urban policy and social justice movements through the lens of solutions journalism. I have loved writing about things that work, why they work, and what it means for how we live in cities.

I believe incarcerated people should have a voice in the mainstream media. You can read about my work in that regard under the section titled Writing from Prison. I also co-edited a guidebook to help media organizations build capacity to work with incarcerated writers. It was published by Haymarket Books.

In 2021, I was named a LEDE Fellowship by the Solutions Journalism Network and received a National Press Foundation fellowship for criminal justice reporting in the age of George Floyd. In 2023, I received a Marvel Cooke Fellowship to co-report a story about the risks of journalism from prison, for Shadowproof. In 2024, I received a grant from Type Investigation for a co-reporting project to investigate toxic drinking water at a California prison, for The Appeal. In 2025, the Fund for Investigative Journalism awarded a grant to continue reporting the issue.