I’m a policy writer, researcher, and editor looking at cities, families, the economy, and care work. My journalism has received recognition from the Casey Journalism Center, support from New America’s Better Life Lab, and has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Slate, Bloomberg's CityLab, and The New York Times. I’ve reported on how the pandemic became an unplanned experiment in abolishing the child welfare system, why universal pre-k programs drive up the cost of infant care, and the unexpected controversy surrounding plans to revamp a Brooklyn park. My commentary and essays have taken on topics such as why housing co-ops should not be treated as bottom-line businesses and the pernicious myth of parents as savvy child care consumers.

I’ve conducted research for various organizations, including the Center for an Urban Future and South Bronx Rising Together. For over a decade I served as editor and reporter of the investigative Child Welfare Watch project at the Center for New York City Affairs, an applied policy research institute at The New School. Our reports and policy briefs fueled reform in New York City’s subsidized child care programs, its child welfare system, and its delivery of homeless services. 

I also spent several years co-editing a magazine written by and for teenagers in foster care that was distributed to group homes and foster care agencies. While coaching the young writers, I received a PASEsetter award for notable New York City after school workers. I remain committed to helping marginalized perspectives and voices be heard.

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