About Me

I’m a writer, editor, researcher and media producer with 20 years of experience in journalism, communications, and scholarly research arenas.

I’ve worked for nonprofits, higher ed institutions, and news outlets producing stories, editing publications, leading research projects, and writing for documentary and public history productions. My journalism has appeared in national magazines and newspapers. My Ph.D. research focused on news coverage and public discourse surrounding gentrification, with a dissertation entitled “News Discourses of Redevelopment: How Journalists Constructed Place and Portrayed Change in Reporting on the Prince George’s County Gateway Arts District.”

I am currently Associate Director of Communications & Research for the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network, which works to support BIPOC- and immigrant-owned businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods.

I have a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, an M.A. from the Missouri School of Journalism, an M.A. in literary and cultural studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.A. in English from Bethel College (Kansas).