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

As an editor and writer at Bloomberg News, I cover cities and the environment. From 2022 to 2023, I was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

I’ve recently edited stories about Los Angeles’ ambitious transit expansion, gentrification in Medellín and whether robo-taxis belong in cities. Some favorite recent stories I’ve written are about the private equity firm tapping sensitive springs to bottle water (part of a series that won a 2024 SABEW award and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting), Paradise, CA’s recovery from wildfire and how QAnon inflamed a fight over opioids in rural Washington, which inspired the podcast Bedrock, USA.

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.

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.

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. You can sign up here.

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

Reach out and say hello!