I'm a writer, environmental journalist, and photographer with an appreciation for slow, overlooked natural and cultural phenomena. Often, this means telling climate-centered stories from communities experiencing changes to their lands and waters — and health, kitchen tables, and bank accounts by extension.
This pursuit led me to Alaska, where since 2023 I have been living and working with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the International Arctic Research Center, and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center.
Practicing good environmental journalism invariably requires weaving Western science with Indigenous ways of knowing. I'm grateful to have shared conversations and quality time with members of many resilient communities in both Alaska and the Lower 48. With great fortune, I've reported from caribou migrations along the Arctic Ocean, fish camps on the Yukon River, lightning storms across Alabama's Tornado Alley, Quinault Nation crab boats off the Olympic Peninsula's shores, and the hoop houses of Kodiak Island.
Freshwater stories mean the most to me. I write the twice-weekly Stream newsletter for Circle of Blue — a nonprofit, Great Lakes-based newsroom — and continue to seek a variety of freelance assignments. Outside of the environmental sphere, I love to write on music and art. My on-again, off-again music blog is called Navy Peer. I doodle giraffes, too.
Prior to this life chapter, I held fellowships and roles with WFMT Chicago, Sierra Magazine, Grid News, and Smithsonian Magazine. My work has also appeared in outlets such as Discover, The Progressive, NowThis, and Atlas Obscura.
I grew up on Chicago's Northwest side. This is where my poetry and fiction live, exploring the architecture of strip malls and alleys, the weight of loneliness, and collective memory.
I graduated from Northwestern University in 2021 with a double major in journalism and poetry, and in 2022 with a master's degree in environmental, health, and science reporting. Before these pursuits, I cut my teeth on biomedical and synthetic biology research projects with the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab and iGEM.
I'm grateful to have received university awards for both my journalism and poetry.
"The earth is round; let us not be too attached, then, to directions."
- Olga Tokarczuk, Flights