As a reporter, I'm fluent in decoding global conflict, women's rights, and climate geopolitics for general-interest audiences. I also founded and write Frame's weekly flagship newsletter covering underreported U.S. and global political stories, The Detour.
As an editor, my work often begins with one question: “What are you dying to write?” In a news cycle that prioritizes speed over depth, I take a collaborative, affirming approach aimed at bringing out not just a reporter’s best work, but the most honest, necessary stories for readers.
Today, I am the Managing Editor at More to Her Story, where I lead editorial strategy for a global newsroom focused on telling powerful stories about women and girls, reaching one to three million readers each month. I’ve commissioned and edited high-profile op-eds from Nobel-nominated and internationally recognized women’s rights leaders, expanded the publication into previously untouched regions of coverage, led rapid-response news coverage of global crises, and helped forge partnerships with celebrated institutions like Zan Times, Ideas Beyond Borders, and Rukhshana Media. My focus is on shaping a thoughtful, mission-driven newsroom that innovates across formats to produce compelling, underreported journalism that drives impact and builds lasting credibility.
As a social media and audience strategist, I am somewhat of a digital Swiss Army knife: I led the full social and audience relaunch of Frame Media, built Foreign Policy’s social storytelling operation from scratch, and was nominated by FP's editor-in-chief for the Association of Magazine Editors' NEXT Award for journalists under 30. I was also one of the first social editors to win the Baltimore-Washington News Guild’s Front Page Award for visual storytelling on Instagram Stories. I’m fluent in the full storytelling stack: designing in Figma and Canva, editing video in Premiere and CapCut, diving into Google Analytics and Chartbeat, optimizing for SEO, and always upholding the highest editorial standards in a quickly evolving digital landscape.
As a public speaker and podcast guest, I can help your listeners, audiences, or students better understand social media strategy for newsrooms, emerging storytelling formats in the new-media landscape, how to capture/convert new audiences as a start-up or legacy brand, and how to thoroughly and ethically report on intersectional identity amid global conflict or emergent humanitarian crises. My experience includes speaking to graduate journalism students and professionals about how women-led feminist outlets can counter democratic backsliding, and explaining the digital challenges facing U.S. newsrooms today at the U.S. State Department and Meridian International-funded cooperative for journalists and media professionals from Central Asia. I have also spoken to students at American University, the University of California, Irvine, and the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta.
As a public speaker and podcast guest, I can help your listeners, audiences, or students better understand social media strategy for newsrooms, emerging storytelling formats in the new-media landscape, how to capture/convert new audiences as a start-up or legacy brand, and how to thoroughly and ethically report on intersectional identity amid global conflict or emergent humanitarian crises. My experience includes speaking to graduate journalism students and professionals about how women-led feminist outlets can counter democratic backsliding, and explaining the digital challenges facing U.S. newsrooms today at the U.S. State Department and Meridian International-funded cooperative for journalists and media professionals from Central Asia. I have also spoken to students at American University, the University of California, Irvine, and the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta.
As a self-proclaimed "professional curious person," I hold a Master’s in Journalism & Digital Storytelling from American University, where I received the Gridiron Club and Foundation Grant. I'm also a trained videographer and photographer focused on documentary and portrait work. And, occasionally, I'm a background actor and photo double for TV and film (this is New York, after all!) Earlier in my career, I was a digital producer at American University and a contract videographer at the World Bank, where I led social growth strategies and produced multimedia content spotlighting global development work.