I am a freelance writer based in Boulder, Colorado. I am working on my debut novel.

Formerly, I was a newspaper editor and a general and political news correspondent for the international newswire Reuters, where my stories regularly reached a global audience and were syndicated in publications like the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian. I have discussed my work on MSNBC and KCRW, Southern California’s largest NPR affiliate, among other outlets.

As a freelance writer and photographer, I have also been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Oregonian, the Huffington Post, NPR, American Public Media’s On Being, High Country News, Bright Magazine, the Knight Chair in Media and Religion blog, and elsewhere. My reporting has spanned politics and breaking news in the American Southwest, immigration and identity in Israel, water scarcity in Tanzania, and many other stories. 

I received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Southern California’s Graduate School of Journalism, where I was an Annenberg Fellow. I also hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Affairs and French Literature from the University of Virginia, where I was an Echols Scholar.

I was born and raised in Albemarle County, Virginia on the grounds of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, just outside of Charlottesville. I thought for a long while that riding bikes after public visiting hours around historical sites was totally normal. Apparently that is actually quite unusual!