Hi! I’m a journalist, writer and editor based in San Francisco.

On staff at Bloomberg Businessweek, I write about cities and the environment. From 2022 to 2023, I was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

Some recent favorite stories I’ve written are about the dangerous mismanagement of Yosemite National Park by its concessioner Aramark, the private equity firm pumping sensitive springs to bottle water (part of Bloomberg Green’s Water Grab series, which was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting) and how QAnon inflamed a fight over opioids in rural Washington, which inspired the podcast Bedrock, USA.

In 2022, I was the reporter and host of Bedrock, USA, a narrative podcast series from Bloomberg Media and iHeart Radio about political extremism in local government. It was a finalist for a Webby Award and an Online Journalism Award.

That same year, Black Dog & Leventhal published The Quarantine Atlas, a book I edited of 65 homemade maps and 8 essays revealing pandemic life around the world. It stemmed from a global audience engagement project I co-led at Bloomberg CityLab, which was also a finalist for an Online Journalism Award.

My work has also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Businessweek, MIT Tech Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sierra and other outlets, as well as in books like The Future of Transportation and Wildsam’s guide to California.

I also edit stories on a broad range of business topics, like how Bogg bags won over America’s moms, how matzo is made, the company preaching America’s nuclear revival and how the world gets to net zero emissions.

I often use maps and data in my work, and in 2017 I founded MapLab, a newsletter from CityLab about how maps and geography intersect with the news. It ran for seven years.

I am periodically invited to teach and lecture about journalism and cities, including at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley and NYU.

Reach out and say hello!