LONGFORM JOURNALISM
I am an LA-based longform storyteller and podcast writer, with an abiding interest in entrepreneurs, architects, filmmakers, fringe candidates, prodigies and some of the major beneficiaries and casualties of the American justice system. I’ve also explored such diverse territory as homelessness and luxury goods, gender-equality activism and right-wing radio, and the profound personal struggles of autistic adults and children and those who love them.
As writer-at-large for Los Angeles magazine, I won the 2013 PEN USA journalism award for my article about former Los Angeles Schools Superintendent John Deasy’s ill-fated attempt to transform the nation’s most dysfunctional public education system. Past features of mine — on attorney-agitator Gloria Allred, Charlton Heston in winter, and the transition of legendary helicopter news pilot Bob Tur into a woman named Zoey — have been selected by longform.com.
In addition to Los Angeles, my work has appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian magazine, Architect magazine, American Way magazine, politico.com, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure section.
I earned my M.A. at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where I was awarded the magazine writing prize.