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Experience
1999 – PRESENT FREELANCE JOURNALIST
• On contract with Scribner to produce Foodless: On (Not) Eating Well in America, an examination of living--and eating--within America's food system
• Published in the New York Times, Salon.com, Saveur, HuffingtonPost.com, Gastronomica, American Prospect, MSNBC.com, Plenty, New York, City Limits
2001-2005 MANAGING EDITOR, CITY LIMITS MAGAZINE
• Managed staff of award-winning news organization and produced content for its monthly magazine and weekly email.
• Beat reporter focused on issues of public assistance, child care, labor, workforce development, and community food issues. Also some specialty in local politics. Regularly contributed news, long-form features and columns.
• Oversaw production of magazine, supervising art and production staff comprised of a designer, copy editor, and art director and pinch-hitting when necessary.
• In absence of editor in chief, determined editorial content; assigned and edited features, Q&As and book reviews; conceived issues and article presentation; wrote display copy.
1999 – 2001 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, HANDS TO WORK
• Responsible for providing research assistance for Hands to Work, LynNell Hancock’s 2001 book on welfare reform in New York City.
• Conducted interviews with advocates, public officials and welfare recipients to assess effects of welfare reform; compiled data on 20 related topics.
1998 – 1999 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, VILLAGE VOICE
• Provided research assistance to city politics reporter Wayne Barrett.
• Conducted intensive research and interviews, along with general reporting tasks.
Awards
2006 JAMES ARONSON AWARD FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE JOURNALISM
• Won national prize rewarding journalism that measures business, governmental and social affairs against clear ideals of the common good.
2006 LIVINGSTON AWARDS FOR YOUNG JOURNALISTS
• Finalist in largest national reporting prize in country for young journalists.
2006 WESLEYAN WRITER’S CONFERENCE
• Recipient of Jon Davidoff Scholarship, awarded to journalists of unusual promise.
2005 HARRY CHAPIN MEDIA AWARD
• Won national prize rewarding outstanding coverage of poverty and hunger issues, for “The Action Diet,” (City Limits, July/August 2004). Was also a finalist for same award twice previous, for “Market Babies” (City Limits January 2003), and “The Great Training Robbery” (City Limits, May 2001).
2005 JAMES BEARD JOURNALISM AWARD
• Finalist for national prize rewarding outstanding newspaper or magazine reporting on Nutrition or Consumer-Related Food Issues, for “The Action Diet” (City Limits, July/August 2004).
2004 CASEY MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS JOURNALISM
• Honorable mention for national prize rewarding outstanding coverage of issues facing children and families, for “Market Babies” (City Limits, January 2003)
2004 FELLOWSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
• Fellow for Journalism Fellowships in Child and Family Policy at Philip Merrill School of Journalism, aimed at deepening journalists’ understanding of how social policies affect children.
Education
1994-1999 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
• Bachelor of Arts, Political Science.
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