About

Hello! I’m a New York-based journalist with experience as a reporter and an editor. I’ve contributed to New York Magazine, Defector, The Verge, Slate, CalMatters, Eater, the Los Angeles Times, and Deadspin, among others. I’m a co-author of Hard Reset — a newsletter about tech, politics, and power — and am also a contributing editor at Edutopia, a nonprofit education initiative.

Previously, I was an editor at SFGATE, where I ran three separate sections — first sports, then local, then politics — from August 2020 through 2023.

During my time as SFGATE’s politics editor, I oversaw our coverage of Bay Area and statewide politics. I managed and edited a reporter, and regularly contributed stories myself; the goal of the section was to hold the region’s most influential politicians and magnates to account, showing how their policy decisions, business ventures, and personal ideologies shaped media narratives and affected the public. 

As SFGATE’s local editor, I edited and reported on just about everything of interest to Bay Area readers, with an emphasis on labor issues, housing and homelessness, and how billionaires and corporations exert their considerable influence.

And as SFGATE’s sports editor, I oversaw coverage of the Warriors, 49ers and Giants, seeking out underreported storylines and features as all three teams made title runs. I broke multiple stories about the poor treatment of Bay Area concessions workers and minor league baseball players, as well as the far-right political donations of Giants principal owner Charles Johnson, who responded to my reporting with a public apology and pledge to do better (he reneged on that pledge, which I covered too).

Before SFGATE, I worked at GQ; I wrote hundreds of stories there, conducted countless interviews, and covered beats like national politics, dating, and tech.

To supplement the freelance writer grind, I’ve also picked up approximately one million copywriting and copy editing gigs.