About Me

I stumbled my way into journalism in college after falling for my first love, science. Part of this is due to the fact that I was really impacted by the movie An Inconvenient Truth at a young age. I have since been focused on contributing, in a meaningful way, to the larger movement to solve climate change. At age 7, it meant mostly convincing everyone into recycling, but now it means I am focused on telling the stories of the people causing climate change and the people most impacted by climate change.

I was most recently a Ben Bagdikian fellow at Mother Jones where I helped fact-check articles for the magazine and website as well as report and write articles.

Previously, I was an environmental justice fellow at Grist, where I wrote stories on my beat ranging from short quick-turn pieces to feature-length deep dives on topics like the coal transition and how a community reckons with legacy pollution. Additionally, I wrote about housing, labor, politics, and how all of these forces interact with climate change and contributed to COP28 coverage. I also co-wrote Grist’s extremes newsletter about extreme heat in the Summer of 2023 alongside two staff writers.

In 2022, I was a reporting fellow at City Bureau, where I focused on engagement reporting focused on the South and West sides of Chicago. I contributed to a package of stories about labor issues in temp work in manufacturing and warehousing in the area.

In addition to my journalism, I also volunteer with organizations like AAJA, The Uproot Project and Zenith Cooperative to increase the amount of journalists of color in the industry and help support them along the course of their careers.

Hit me up if you want to collaborate on a climate story or just talk about freelancing, Chicago, or my many media obsessions including: reality television, 2000’s era bollywood, and prestige TV with a female lead.