Born and raised in New York, New York. Former dweller of Austin, Texas and the Mississippi Delta. Have reported from church pews, high school football fields, underground salons, college protests, graduations and cyberspace. Lover of unsweet tea and after dinner mints, meat-and-threes and dinner parties.
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”
— William Faulkner
Employment
Features Intern/Contributing writer, The Christian Science Monitor (New York, New York)
Corps Member, Teach For America: Greater Delta (Greenville, Miss.)
Producer, Delta Arts Alliance (Cleveland, Miss.)
Education
A.B., American Studies — Columbia University, Columbia College
M.S., Toni Stabile Fellow in Investigative Reporting — Columbia Graduate School of Journalism