I’m an independent multimedia journalist, documentary filmmaker, fact-checker, and copywriter currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

As a journalist, I’ve reported on everything from long COVID to youth homelessness in New Mexico to the refugee crisis at the Thai-Myanmar border, and am a former editor at Outside and 5280 magazines. I’ve worked on quick turnaround news stories, narrative features, and reported essays. I pride myself on my ability to cover a range of topics, but as a queer, chronically ill person living with long COVID, I have a special interest in correcting the narratives of marginalized communities often mis-and under-represented in the media.

As a videographer and filmmaker, I’ve produced videos for publications, nonprofits, businesses, and performers. I’m skilled in the entire production process, including directing, cinematography, audio recording, and editing. My first documentary short, about empowering women and people assigned female at birth through roller derby, is currently in post-production.

I’ve fact-checked complex, legally-sensitive features for award-winning publications and podcasts like Outside, 5280, and Texas Monthly, as well as longform investigative podcasts for companies like Campside Media. I also fact-check and research books, including two released in 2023: Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes (Penguin Random House) by Christine Yu and The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West (Little Brown) by Will Grant.

I copywrite for a variety of companies and nonprofits, with particular experience and interest in outdoor brands and environmental organizations.

My circuitous route to journalism included stops in trauma psychology counseling and research, conservation science and sustainable tourism, underwater videography, and winemaking. I spent four years living, traveling, and working in over a dozen countries across Asia, Africa, and Oceania. I guided SCUBA divers in one of the most remote corners of Indonesia, traveled around Myanmar with Buddhist monks, drove the length of New Zealand while living out of a car, and sailed across the South Pacific. I first made the leap into journalism by writing about my travel experiences, and working for a small, refugee-run publication, Karen News, on the Thai-Myanmar border.

Beyond work and travel I’m an avid outdoors person: I backpack, mountain bike, snowboard, whitewater raft, sail, and surf. I’m also a Krav Maga instructor, PADI Divemaster, and budding roller derby jammer.