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Hi, thanks for visiting. I'm a New York City-based journalist, currently serving as senior editor at LearnVest, where I write about personal finance, and as contributing editor at SmartPlanet, where I cover science for Science Scope. Born and raised in Ohio, I attended college at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where I wrote for The Stanford Daily and fell in love with Northern California and Stanford's Olympic-sized swimming pool. For half a year, I also studied at Oxford University's St. Catherine's College -- in between frequent jaunts around Europe. I graduated from Stanford Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and a degree in Modern Thought and Literature. In 2008, I earned a Master's of Arts from the Columbia School of Journalism, concentrating in science journalism. At Columbia, I also served on the Earth Institute Student Advisory Council and organized a panel on media coverage of climate change that featured Bill Blakemore of ABC, John Rennie of Scientific American and Andrew Revkin of The New York Times. My work experience includes positions as assistant producer and reporter at Newsweek.com; editor on the technology desk at The Wall Street Journal Online; and producer for The New York Times on the Web. At Nytimes.com, I managed the Real Estate and Around Town sections, creating two weekly columns for Real Estate: Apartment Envy, a popular series about New York apartments (Slate.com wrote an article about the column), and Blueprints, a regular feature on New York apartment buildings. For several years, I have worked as a freelance writer for a number of magazines, newspapers and Web sites. As for life experience, I taught English in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, to spectacular elementary, middle and high school students for one year. While in Indonesia, I hiked in tea plantations, saw Komodo dragons, learned to SCUBA dive, traveled around Indonesia, Australia and Singapore and learned Indonesian. In New York, I learned to dance French swing (also known as Ceroc), salsa, merengue, swing, ballroom, such as foxtrot, rhumba, waltz, Viennese waltz, and Argentine tango, which I wrote about in this essay. I also learned yoga and completed two teacher-trainings, eventually teaching vinyasa and restorative yoga at a variety of centers and privately. Finally, I fell in love with the Italian language, which I learned in New York and practice on trips to Il Bel Paese. I also spent two years in Los Angeles, where I thought a lot about how much driving lowers quality of life and learned to sing Mexican pop songs while stuck in traffic. When I wasn't in my car, I relished my proximity to Thai Town, Koreatown, fish taco stands and the Center for Yoga. I also sought views from hikes in Malibu, Topanga and Griffith Park. Now, I'm back in my favorite city, thinking, reporting and writing about this wonderful world we live in. |
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