About

I'm a freelance reporter based in NYC focused on media, higher ed, and labor. Previously, I was an intern investigative reporter with APM Reports, an intern reporter with the Chronicle of Higher Education and POLITICO California, and an intern fact-checker & copyeditor with FAIR.org.

I'm also a thru-hiker, caver, and philosophy-lover. My two favorite songs from television soundtracks are Bear McCreary's "Prelude to War" from Battlestar Galactica, and Labyrinth's "all for us" from Euphoria. 

APM Reports •

Tim Walz’s experience in China could help him as veep, but he barely mentions it as a candidate

The warning from the U.S. State Department in June 1989 was stark. It told Americans to stay away from China, citing an “extremely volatile and potentially life-threatening” situation there following the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two months later, even though the department was still discouraging “non-essential” travel to the country, a 25-year-old teacher from Nebraska went there anyway.
The Chronicle of Higher Education •

On This Campus, Every Student Could Join a Union. The College Calls It an ‘Existential Threat.’

Student workers at Berea College won’t be the first undergraduates to unionize , but a union at this small Kentucky institution would be a first in other ways.

If successful, it would be the first of its kind in the South, a region that’s historically been anti-union. It would be the first student-worker union at a , where students hold a job in return for free tuition. And it would also be the first undergraduate union to count every student on campus as a member.

Berea is a “historic and imp
The Chronicle of Higher Education •

How Colleges Have Responded to Student Encampments

The number of pro-Palestinian encampments at colleges nationwide continues to climb, reaching more than 80 campuses as of Wednesday. College leaders are grappling with how to balance students’ right to freedom of expression with campus safety concerns, and an uptick in arrests over the past several days has signaled that administrators are struggling to reach peaceful resolutions.

The encampments, inspired by students at Columbia University, where tents first appeared two weeks ago, most common
The Chronicle of Higher Education •

Dozens of Students Arrested at Yale as Administrators Clear Encampment

Yale University police officers on Monday arrested 47 Yale students who were occupying a campus plaza to demand that the university cut ties with weapons manufacturers, including those connected to Israel.

It’s the second time in the past four days that college administrators have shut down an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters. Last Thursday, Columbia University officials called in the New York City Police Department to arrest more than 100 student protesters who were also demanding that
The Chronicle of Higher Education •

‘First-Generation Students’ Can Be a Limiting Category, New Report Says

Colleges can’t agree on how to define “first generation” students. And maybe that’s OK, according to a team of researchers. But institutions must be aware of even small differences in backgrounds — because a narrow framing of who’s first-gen might cause colleges to miss students who need additional support.

That’s the central takeaway from the latest report in a series from the Common App, which has spent the past five months examining the complicated effects of students’ different parental sit