During my 20 years in journalism, I’ve worked at national magazines, newspapers, and podcast companies.
I believe everyone has a story to tell, and I love working with writers to focus their ideas. At The Atlantic, I worked on opinion essays with some of my favorite writers, including Imani Perry, Rosanne Cash, Silas House, Tom Nichols, and Clint Smith and tackled various topics, including anti-racist teaching, purity culture, and what the media is getting wrong about Joe Manchin. I love a good personal essay, and I’ve worked with writers on many, including, recently a musician’s reluctance to return to the stage, an essential worker’s COVID-19 experience, and a son who rented his parents’ former home on AirBnB.
At The New York Times, I started Draft, a series about the art of writing, which won me the Publisher’s Award. André Aciman wrote about memoir, Stacy Schiff about biography, and Lee Child about creating suspense, to name just a few. I was also the text editor for Exposures, a photo essay series, and I edited Op-Eds and Sunday Review essays.
At Serial and This American Life, I participated in audio edits and helped with reporting, but my most important role was to absorb the themes and feelings of the audio and have the vision to transform them into arresting websites. You can see my art-direction work and interactive projects at the sites for Serial Season Two and Season Three, as well as S-Town. At my time there, I helped redesign and launch the This American Life website.