Over a decade, I’ve covered everything from social justice, solutions and urbanism as a freelance reporter based in Brooklyn, New York. Now I serve as director of the Writing for Liberation track of Empowerment Avenue, a collective founded in 2020 to support incarcerated writers and artists. 

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 prominent voice in the mainstream media. You can read about my work in that regard under the section titled Empowerment Avenue. I also co-edited a guidebook to help media organizations build capacity to work with incarcerated writers. It was published by Haymarket Books. 

I am the recipient of the 2021 LEDE Fellowship as well as the National Press Foundation fellowship for reporting on criminal justice in the age of George Floyd.