hello there —

I’m a writer and editor who aims to bring a humanistic, poetic, and community-based perspective to my work. These days, I’m based in New York (by way of Minneapolis, Oakland, Chicago and Dallas).

Currently: I work as a producer on The Ezra Klein Show. I was the lead producer for interviews with Ethan Mollick, Sharon Brous, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Masha Gessen, Pooja Lakshmin and Stephanie Slade.

Previously: From 2021-2022, I was an editorial assistant for Opinion Audio at The New York Times, supporting The Ezra Klein Show, The Argument, and Sway. I joined the Times as the 2020-21 Opinion editing fellow and commissioned guest essays on culture and politics. I’m particularly proud to have brought in this piece about Uyghur poetry, as well as this essay by the poet and writer Ian Manuel, who spent 18 years in solitary confinement and urges for the end of the practice in America’s criminal legal system.

Before that: I was an editor at The On Being Project, which produces the Peabody Award-winning podcast On Being with Krista Tippett. There, I helped launch The Pause, a weekly newsletter that explores themes resonant with On Being’s programming. Through this work, I was selected as a fellow for the Compassionate Leadership Summit, which convened with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in October 2022 to discuss the urgent challenges facing young people today.

If you really want to time travel: I’ve worked at the University of California at Berkeley, reported on corporate finance at The Wall Street Journal, and enjoyed a stint in Beijing researching environmental policy and governance. I studied political science and creative writing at the University of Chicago, where I served as co-editor of Grey City Magazine, the campus’s long-form investigative journal, a senior editor for the Chicago Maroon’s Viewpoints section, and a staff writer for the South Side Weekly.

I volunteer as a Mandarin interpreter for the National Immigrant Justice Center and am serving on the board of #MinneAsianStories, which collects stories of Asian Minnesotans in order to strengthen community and inform policymaking in the state. I’ve also served as an English Language Learner teacher at Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) in Oakland, California, as well as a tutor at 826 MSP, a youth creative writing center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.