writing

(favorites starred)

*The Candy Sellers (Cover Story) – New York Magazine / August 2023

*The Last Train to Patagonia (Feature) – National Geographic / April 2023

*A master of the grandfather clock reveals time’s hidden history (Feature) – National Geographic / September 2022

*Finding peace on a 72-hour train across America (Essay) – National Geographic / July 2022

DNA recovery attempt begins on last American slave ship  (Feature) – National Geographic / May 2022

She navigated a 3,000-mile Pacific voyage without maps or technology (Feature) – National Geographic / May 2022

*More than 300 languages are spoken along this NYC street (Feature) – National Geographic / April 2022

*They’re defending their land and paying with their lives (Magazine) – National Geographic Magazine / March 2022 issue

*He’s the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s Accordions (Nonfiction) – The New York Times / November 2021

Luis Soriano had a dream, two donkeys, and a lot of books (Nonfiction) – Atlas Obscura / November 2021                                           (Excerpt from Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena)

How to Travel the World…By Radio (Essay) – National Geographic / October 2021

*Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island (Nonfiction) – Scientific American / October 2021                                                       Excerpted from the anthology Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau (2021)

*How the Colombian Band Morat is Winning Over a Global Audience (Feature) – The New York Times / October 2021                           (Leer en español: Morat, la banda colombiana que conquista el mundo al ritmo del banjo)

The Real Story Behind the World’s “Wandering Rocks” (Nonfiction) – National Geographic Magazine / May 2021 Issue

*Bringing the Diaspora to the Dinner Table (Essay) – NYT Opinion / January 2021

Queens, one of the first COVID-19 epicenters, faces a new crisis: hunger (Feature) – National Geographic / December 2020                 (Leer en español: Queens, uno de los primeros epicentros de COVID-19 en EEUU, se enfrenta a una nueva crisis: el hambre)

*A Letter to My Generation: Coming of Age Amid COVID-19 (Essay) – National Geographic Magazine / November 2020 Issue         (Read also: ‘We Still See Silver Linings‘ on NatGeo.com)

The Earth is on Fire (Essay) – Scientific American Magazine / October 2020

*The Shark Fishermen of New York (Feature) – The New York Times – Sunday Metro / September 2020

The Great Au Pair Rush (Feature) – The New York Times – Sunday Business / July 2020

You Should Start Writing Letters (Essay) – NYT Opinion / July 2020

*The Photographer Recreating 120-Year-Old Images of Patagonia (Nonfiction) – Culture Trip / July 2020

What’s Next for the Class of 2020? (Nonfiction) – National Geographic / June 2020

At an HIV Clinic in Queens, a Sense of Home Hangs in the Balance (Essay) – Scientific American / May 2020

From a Balcony, The Sights and Sounds of Senior Year (Essay) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / May 2020

How the Stunning Scarlet Macaw Returned to Honduras (Feature) – Smithsonian Magazine / April 2020

*When It’s Safer to Stay Apart (Essay) – Scientific American / March 2020

Railcar Enthusiast Will French Enjoys the Journey (Feature) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / March 2020

A Women-Only Indigenous Co-Op in Guatemala is Weaving to Protect its Community (Feature) – Culture Trip / February 2020

*The Fear of Being Jewish (Essay) – NYT Opinion / January 2020

A Taste of Syria in the Andes (Nonfiction) – Tablet Magazine / January 2020

*Hallmark Thinks Jewish People Have No Clue What Christmas Is (Essay) – NYT Opinion / December 2019

*A Warming Climate is Changing Sukkot (Essay) – NYT Opinion / October 2019

*From Baghdad to Queens: An Iraqi Community Remembers (Essay) – The Forward / July 2019

Land of Castles: Walking Princeton’s Campus with Art Garfunkel (Essay) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / April 2019

Dinner for Somebody: The Lake Carnegie Fishermen (Nonfiction) – Nassau Weekly / April 2019

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, grassroots opposition stalls another hydropower project (Feature with video) – Mongabay.com / April 2019

The Master Jeweler (Nonfiction) – ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America / February 2019

Take a Ride on these Private Railroad Cars Known as “Yachts on Rails” (Radio Feature) – All Things Considered (NPR) / April 2018

Repurposed (Nonfiction) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / June 2017

A Story from the Jungle (Fiction) – Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal / April 2017

Productive Relaxation: A Visitor’s Perspective on the Life Cycle of an Outer Banks Vacation (Essay) – Coast Magazine / July 2016