Writing
ARTS AND CULTURE
Sober Curious Gen Z and Millennials Have Sparked the Next Health Trend published in DAME Magazine, October 2022
Subjects of World Press Photo Series ‘Paradise Lost’ Critical of Project published in PetaPixel, April 2021
Fed Up With Dating Apps, This Portlander Started Her Own Low-Tech Matchmaking Service published in Willamette Week, July 2021
A Designer Is Using Augmented Reality to Resurrect Portland’s Fading “Ghost Signs” published in Willamette Week, February 2021
Lydia Manning Is Passing Time Waiting for the Clubs to Reopen by Entertaining Instagram and TikTok With Goofy Videos published in Willamette Week, February 2021
Pomegranate Has Been Making Artful Games and Puzzles Since the ’60s. But 2020 Is the Year It Truly Blew Up published in Willamette Week, January 2021
It Took a While, but the Founders of Crafty Games’ Lifelong Love of Role-Playing Games Is Finally Paying Off published in Willamette Week, January 2021
Mt Caz Ranger Clubhouse Is an Artist Collective in Corvallis That’s Created Everything From Poetry Games to Treasure Hunts Meant to Be Played at Enchanted Forest published in Willamette Week, January 2021
Kameron Messmer’s Balloon Sculptures Are Blowing Up published in Willamette Week, July 2020
A dusk-to-dawn party in Detroit you've probably never heard about published in Detroit Free Press, September 2018
What Happens Weekly and Keeps SF Guessing?published in Mission Local, August 2015
BUSINESS
Bikes Sales Have Exploded During the Pandemic—and for Portland Cycling Advocates, That Spells Opportunity published in Willamette Week, August 2020
SuperGenius Is a Small Company With Big Clients. Just Don’t Ask About Them published in Willamette Week, January 2020
In Oregon’s crowded specialty tea industry, Young Mountain Tea savors its connection to farmers in rural India published in The Oregonian, November 2021
From being targeted for robbery to confrontational customers, 4 Amazon delivery drivers talk about what scares them during peak season published in Business Insider, January 2021
Cannabis retailers can’t bank like other businesses, so they are sending lobbyists to Capitol Hill published in Business Insider, January 2019
Education
As the Pandemic Continues to Make Distance Learning a Challenge, Equal Ground School Is Taking to the Great Outdoors to Tutor Students in Person published in Willamette Week, November 2020
As coronavirus cases rise, a Miami mom struggles to keep up with distance learning published in Digital Trends, August 2020
Texas teacher plans to be ‘overly cautious’ as schools reopen published in Digital Trends, August 2020
Fashion
Fashion Week isn’t about models anymore — it’s about the influencers published in Digital Trends, February 2020
Big tech showed up at New York Fashion Week — but I'm not so sure it's going to stick published in Business Insider, February 2019
Finance
Why crypto’s eco-friendly pivot is perpetually delayed published in Digital Trends, April 2022
How Startup Founders Can Prepare for Cryptocurrency Regulation published in 500 Startups’ Global VC, January 2022
Cracks in the crypto utopia: How a surge of scams is exposing DeFi’s dark side published in Digital Trends, September 2021
The Hidden Costs of NFTs: Ecological Impact and Unpredictable Volatility published in PetaPixel, June 2021
How to Mint an NFT: The Photographer’s Guide published in PetaPixel, June 2021
Is Robinhood safe? Experts weigh in on using the commission-free investing app published in Business Insider, July 2021
What is an NFT and Why Should Photographers Care? published in PetaPixel, March 2021
Food
Did “Top Chef: Portland” Boost Business for the City’s Featured Restaurants? It’s Hard to Tell published in Willamette Week, June 2021
Jessie Aron’s First Brick-and-Mortar Hadn’t Even Been Operating for a Month Before the Lockdown, but Malka Is Fighting to Stay Alive published in Willamette Week, November 2020
Naomi Pomeroy May Have Shut Down Her Iconic Prix-Fixe Restaurant, but She Isn’t Abandoning the City’s Food Scene Anytime Soon published in Willamette Week, November 2020
The Sauvie Island Ice Cream Boat Is Real, and It’s Spectacular published in Willamette Week, May 2021
America’s Oldest Tofu Manufacturer Is Still in Business, and Still Making Tofu by Hand published in Willamette Week, February 2021
Freelancing
I graduated from Columbia Journalism School and had 6 internships but couldn't land a full-time job. Freelancing saved me — and I've realized my elite Ivy League education failed me published in Business Insider, May 2021
How to promote yourself as a freelancer without burning out published in Business Insider, August 2021
Is a 10-Hour Work Week Really Possible for Freelancers? published in The Independent Worker, July 2021
Surprising Things Freelancers Can (and Should) Ask for in Contracts published in The Independent Worker
INTERNET CULTURE
How a well-timed hashtag made Juneteenth an official holiday for millions published in Digital Trends, June 2021
An interview with Zach King, the internet’s favorite illusionist published in Digital Trends, April 2021
TikTok users are exposing realities of gig work, and Big Tech can’t stop them published in Digital Trends, February 2021
This Portland Instagram Account Is Straight Trash—and That’s the Whole Point published in Willamette Week, July 2021
Black Lives Matter and MAGA hats: Activism and politics are flooding dating apps published in Digital Trends, September 2020
Can TikTok creators inspire Gen Z to vote in November? Some are betting on it published in Digital Trends, August 2020
Black creators say TikTok is still secretly blocking their content published in Digital Trends, July 2020
How Elon Musk became the internet’s most loved, and hated, meme published in Digital Trends, June 2020
The rise of ‘swipe-up’ activism on Instagram published in Digital Trends, June 2020
TikTok roller-skating queen Ana Coto is leading the hobby’s revival published in Digital Trends, May 2020
The most peaceful place on the internet? Bird Twitter published in Digital Trends, February 2020
News Features
Constructing Hope builds path to living-wage construction jobs for those who need them most published in The Oregonian, April 2022
Inside Dallas' booming real-estate market, where West and East Coast transplants are bidding furiously over homes and paying all cash published in Business Insider, March 2021
The story behind Thousand Currents, the charity that doles out the millions of dollars Black Lives Matter generates in donations published in Business Insider, June 2020
How did the U.S. botch its stimulus check rollout so badly? published in Digital Trends, April 2020
Breast cancer patient's frustration with pink ribbon turns her into advocate published in USA Today, October 2018
Personal Essay
I'm 25, and I talked to 3 single women in their 50s about what it's like to use dating apps like Tinder and Bumble. Their experiences surprised me published in Business Insider, February 2019
I met my husband on Tinder — here's what everyone gets wrong about online dating published in Business Insider, October 2019
Science
Gilmour Space Sees Telecom as the Next Frontier, Not Just Mars published in 500 Startups’ Global VC, April 2022
Astropsychology: How to stay sane on Mars published in Digital Trends, April 2021
Social Media
How Twitter cut activity on QAnon content by half published in Digital Trends, September 2020
Misinformation vs. disinformation: What to know about each form of false information, and how to spot them online published in Business Insider, January 2021
What is doxxing? Here's what you need to know, including how to protect your personal information published in Business Insider, November 2020
How to talk to your friends and family about misinformation and conspiracy theories published in Digital Trends, September 2020
YouTube is trying to crack down on QAnon videos. It’s not working published in Digital Trends, July 2020
Far-right conspiracy group QAnon is surging with TikTok teens published in Digital Trends, July 2020
Sports
The NFL wants to predict injuries before they happen. Here’s how published in Digital Trends, February 2022
Windbreakers: The epic quest to eliminate aerodynamic drag published in Digital Trends, July 2021
Under the radar: How a 117-year old technology gives Olympic throwers an edge published in Digital Trends, July 2021
On the mend: Inside the rapid recovery tech that keeps NFL players game-ready published in Digital Trends, February 2021
A Portland Stripper Designed a Workout Class Exclusively for Sex Workers published in Willamette Week, February 2020
Tech
The UX Pioneer: Louisa Heinrich’s quest to humanize tech published in Digital Trends, March 2022
There’s Been a Monopoly on Prison Communication for Decades. Two Black-Led Startups are Looking to Change That published in The Plug, December 2021
Can Tech Actually Save Humanity? published in DAME Magazine, June 2021
Web Designer Mike Bodge Built a Site to Honor Nurses—and Another That Uses A.I. Technology to Warn People Against Touching Their Face published in Willamette Week, July 2020
Meet Gen Z’s fierce female founders aiming to radically reshape the tech world published in Digital Trends, March 2021
An Oregon Vineyard Is Employing Anti-COVID Technology to Kill Crop-Destroying Fungi published in Willamette Week, July 2021
With wearable tech, Portland’s Beyond Pulse aims to keep kids’ sports fun published in The Oregonian, December 2021
Work
Reinventing the Workweek published in DAME Magazine, August 2021
The Future of Work Isn’t Remote. It’s Flexible published in Digital Trends, January 2021