I’m a writer, researcher, and editor looking at cities, families, the economy, care work, and other more random topics that catch my interest. My journalism has received recognition from the Casey Journalism Center, support from New America’s Better Life Lab, and has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Slate, Bloomberg's CityLab, and The New York Times. I’ve reported on how the pandemic became an unplanned experiment in abolishing the child welfare system and the unexpected controversy surrounding plans to spruce up a Brooklyn park. My commentary and essays have tackled why housing co-ops should not be treated as bottom-line businesses, the dearth of public spaces for teens, and the pernicious myth of parents as savvy child care consumers.

Over the years I’ve conducted research for several nonprofits and think tanks, including the Center for an Urban Future and South Bronx Rising Together. For more than a decade, I was a staff editor and reporter at the investigative Child Welfare Watch project at the Center for New York City Affairs, an applied policy research institute at The New School. Our narrative reports and data-heavy briefs fueled reform in New York City’s subsidized child care programs, its child welfare system, and its delivery of homeless services. 

Prior to that, I spent several amazing years co-editing a magazine written by and for teenagers in foster care that was distributed to group homes and foster care agencies. While coaching the young writers, I received a PASEsetter award for notable New York City after school workers. I remain committed to helping marginalized perspectives and voices be heard.

And finally, I’m finishing up a novel. Please reach out with thoughts, tips, questions, assignments, invitations, declarations, collaborations, and pretty much anything of interest that crosses your desk or mind.