Dec 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · New York, New York, United States

• ▶ Conceived, pitched, and wrote UNEDUCATED, a workplace memoir that examines the value of higher education and confronts the stigma of being degreeless in a 21st-century knowledge economy.
• ▶ The project was sold at auction to Vanessa Mobley at Little, Brown by Ryan Harbage of the Fischer-Harbage Agency.
• ▶ Published in 2023.
• ▶ Winner of the 2024 ASJA Book Award in the autobiography/memoir category.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 · 0 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Cover issues facing U.S. tech workers for Dice Insights.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 · 0 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Contribute travel-related news stories.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 · 0 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Contribute cultural coverage to Vice News.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 · 0 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Wrote a long read about the history and future of Section 230, the provision in communications law credited with fostering the growth of the internet. The story appeared in Wired's Backchannel section.

Jan 2015 – Mar 2015 · 2 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Author of the nonfiction book Tortured Artists, translated into Polish and sold under the title Artyści Udręczeni by Hubert Burda Media in Munich. F+W Media, the book's American publisher, sold the international rights to Burda under a content deal to bring Tortured Artists to a wider audience.

Aug 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Contribute theater-related stories and Broadway show reviews to Newsweek magazine.

Jun 2012 – Jun 2016 · 4 yrs · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Deputy Editor, Media & Culture
• ▶ Oversaw the media and culture section of International Business Times, IBT Media’s flagship publication. Led a team of talented reporters across more than a dozen beats. Shaped coverage strategy and editorial direction. Collaborated with vertical editors and management to build cohesion with the newsroom. Interpreted analytics data to improve the section’s performance, grow IBT’s audience, and strengthen the impact of our journalism.
• Senior Writer, Media & Culture
• ▶ Oversaw ambitious reporting projects, investigative series, and enterprise with a focus on high-impact, character-driven stories. Strong commitment to jargon-free narratives that broadened our readers’ understanding of the most important issues facing media, technology, and culture.
• Senior Reporter, Media & Culture
• ▶ Helped transform IBT’s media and culture coverage from quickly aggregated SEO plays to deeply reported stories. Sharpened section beats. Covered a broad range of topics with a special focus on media disruption, privacy, entertainment, technology, social justice, and corporate malfeasance.

Apr 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

• ▶ Conceived, developed, and wrote the nonfiction book Tortured Artists for Adams Media, now part of Simon & Schuster. The book is an examination of tortured artists from Dante to Amy Winehouse. The proposal was sold in April 2011 to Brendan O’Neill at Adams Media by Meg Thompson of the Thompson Literary Agency. Worked closely with the Adams Media staff while researching the 262-page manuscript.

Apr 2010 – Apr 2010 · 0 mo

• ▶ I contributed witty prose to everyone's favorite trivia and pop-culture magazine.

Apr 2006 – Apr 2011 · 5 yrs · New York, NY

• ▶ Oversaw design and layout of IFQ, a quarterly magazine covering the independent film industry. Worked closely with the editorial staff on design concepts. Oversaw magazine production and print runs. Executed design and layout of program guides for various film festivals.

Nov 2005 – Jun 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos · New York, NY

• ▶ For six years, I led the editorial department for the print and online editions of Show Business, a leading magazine for the performing arts in New York City. Assigned features, news stories, and theater reviews. Maintained listings and audition notices. Supervised a talented staff of writers and freelancers. Set editorial budgets and schedules, and oversaw magazine layout, production, and website updates.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

• ▶ I covered trends in national theater and important issues facing the stage community and theater-arts education, from debates over color-blind casting to new storytelling formats blurring the lines between stage and screen.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 · 0 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Covered trends in theater and stage management.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• ▶ Regular contributor to Seattle's quintessential city mag, where I covered diverse topics related to the arts, culture, and lifestyles in the Seattle area.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo

• ▶ Contributor who wrote about TV for Emmy magazine, published by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Sep 2003 – Sep 2005 · 2 yrs · New York City Metropolitan Area

• ▶ Covered trends in the independent film industry and wrote about film festivals for MovieMaker.