Welcome!
I’m an audio journalist with experience writing, making videos, photography, project management, and graphic design. And I have a lot of fun doing it.
More about me here.
audio stories/projects
For my "Telling True Stories in Sound” class with Daniel Alarcón, I interviewed a woman who is an only child, but grew up with hundreds – that’s right, hundreds – of foster siblings.
Completed in May of 2024
Newsletters
A bi-weekly newsletter with videos from the internet. Here’s a snippet of one of the most popular dispatches:
When I got my Apple Replay (no, I don’t have Spotify), I’ll be honest I was excited.
Remember that month when all I listened to was Hiroshi Sato1, even in the shower? Or when I couldn’t stop singing the catchy earworm “Mona Lisa” by Serginho Meriti?
The past few years have changed my music habits drastically. I used to listen to those algorithmically chosen playlists and save the songs I liked best. But it’s hard to say these songs became a piece of my life. They were just… there.
The thing is there are infinite choices now. Millions of possibilities packed into thousands of playlists, hundreds of new artists, dozens of “now trending”, all at the tips of our fingers everywhere all the time.
And since everything is available, nothing is special…
For now, it’s on Substack. You can subscribe by typing your email below:
radio shows (Hello sonoma!)
Click below to listen to a three minute trailer of Hello Sonoma!, my long running radio show in Sonoma, CA on KSVY 91.3FM. Tune in on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or whoever you get your podcasts.
In the summer of 2022, Hello Sonoma! visited three of Sonoma’s Sister Cities in France, Italy and Hungary to build community connections around the world. Below is one episode from that journey:
writing:
st. mary’s episcopal church survives 200 years in west harlem by adapting to change
Published in Columbia News Service
The basement of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in West Harlem is nothing like the worship space above it. The white, underground room smells of linoleum and popcorn from Friday night movie screenings. Upstairs, on Sunday mornings, hymns echo off a vaulted ceiling while the sunshine through stained-glass windows shoots multi-colored light beams onto the floor.
Both spaces represent how St. Mary’s has served its neighbors during 200 years in the same location on West 126th Street near Amsterdam Avenue in the Manhattanville neighborhood…
harlem farmer’s market founder dreams big
Between a parking lot and a gas station vendors carry stacks of bundled carrots, crates of celery, piles of onions and garlic to their tables. On Bronxdale Avenue in the Bronx, The Uptown Good Food market is just getting set up.
As the elevated 5 train rumbles by, a cyclist rides towards the farmers, leans her bike against a tree, and unties a box of eggs and a big plastic tote.
“I bike everywhere,” says Judi Desire, 44, opening the tote to reveal jars of pickled okra, green beans, cucumbers, and a dozen blocks of cheese she places on a small folding table.
She is so often on her bicycle that when people see her without it, they take notice.
“The community members make me laugh when they see me walking and they’re like, what’s wrong?” …
videos:
While working to support community members facing homelessness, I created several videos to highlight our nonprofit work.
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