I’m a policy writer 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 New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Bloomberg's CityLab, and The Washington Post. 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. Currently a visiting fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, I’m working on a report about libraries and teens.

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 helped to fuel reform in subsidized child care, child welfare, and early childhood and homeless services.  I helped to position the institute as a leading force of analysis and reform for New York City’s rapidly changing early education landscape.

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. Currently a mentor-editor at The OpEd Project, I remain committed to helping marginalized perspectives and voices be heard.

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