The family whose Black Lives Matter sign shook their conservative town
In the tiny Catskills community of White Sulphur Springs, there are a couple dozen Trump signs—and one house with Biden and Black Lives Matter signs. But even though everyone knows each other, there isn’t much dialogue.
The Guardian, September 2020
Is Inpatient Behavioral Health Care Gone for Good in Ulster County?
An investigation into whether Westchester Medical used the pandemic as an excuse to get rid of inpatient psych and detox in Kingston
The River, September 2020
Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?
Two feuding families, a Montana rancher called the Dino Cowboy, and one of the most exciting paleontological finds of the century
The Guardian, July 2019
The Siren Song of the Mighty Towa Towa
On empire, nostalgia, transnational economies, finch singing competitions, and the Caribbean
Roads & Kingdoms, May 2017
Green burial goes beyond not polluting. It's about people needing and caring for land, conducting life-affirming activities there—including death
Yes! Magazine, cover of September 2019 issue
Visiting an Experimental, Do-It-Yourself Library in Brooklyn
At the Sorted Library, a library/art project about archiving, memory, collections, and discovery
Literary Hub, July 2018
The specter of gentrification looms large in upstate NY
Chronogram/The River, October 2019
Five stories of modern New York hunters
Chronogram/The River, November 2019
A deep dive into why New York State didn't end marijuana prohibition in 2019
Chronogram/The River, July 2019
The State of Sex Ed in New York
What should sex education look like in the era of #MeToo?
Chronogram/The River, August 2019
Inside health-tech's efforts to spur better recruitment for clinical trials
MM&M, May 2020
Best Behavior
Two behavioral marketing campaigns illustrate the challenges of resonating with patients
MM&M, March 2020
Facebook's reputation as a responsible steward of personal data took a hit with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. How are its patient communities responding?
MM&M, September 2018
The Unique Arts Festival Where Performers Play for Their Health Care
Reporting on O+ Festival in upstate NY, which establishes a radical community-betterment exchange
Yes! Magazine, November 2018
How a 27-Year-Old College Dropout Is Simplifying Health Care
A profile of an innovative digital health care company
Fortune, October 2016
Street Fight
In and amongst the community-led redevelopment efforts of Brownsville, Brooklyn
BKLYNR, August 2013
A profile of the Renaissance Street Singers, an atheist choir that performs in the streets of New York
The New York Times, April 2013
Bringing Bebop Back Home
At Bill's Place, a jazz speakeasy in Harlem
The New York Times, November 2014
Voices Carry
Out in Sunset Park with the copwatch group El Grito
Brooklyn Magazine, September 2015
Letting Go
A cover profile of Noah Baumbach, on the occasion of While We're Young
Brooklyn Magazine, March 2015
What's Behind the Texas Breakfast Taco Wars
On gentrification and food politics in Austin
Extra Crispy, June 2016
Can Starbucks Make It In Italy?
An historical look at Italian coffee culture, or: the grande caramel macchiato comes to Milan
Extra Crispy, August 2016
A Place That Plucks Heartstrings
Visiting a West Village guitar salon, in the footsteps of Paul Simon
The New York Times, February 2014
Strange Ways: The Long Journey of Howard Fishman
In Brooklyn and Helsinki with the itinerant folk musician
Brooklyn Magazine, September 2015
Can the Lincoln Railsplitters Win It All?
One year after Sandy, a high school football team seeks redemption for Coney Island
BKLYNR, November 2013