Below are samples of my work from five publications I’ve written for, along with two longform/investigative projects.
News and feature writing
New York Focus
- Amazon Quietly Bankrolled $5 Million Campaign Against NYC Delivery Bill
- Hochul’s Embrace of Trump’s ‘No Tax on Tips’ Will Cost NYC Millions
- New York’s Brand-New Casino Is in a $500M+ Fight With the State
- Mamdani’s New Albany Asks: Smaller Corporate Tax Hike, Fees on Pricey Home Sales
Crain’s New York Business
- Adams spends $250K of city money on tech conference with ties to Frank Carone
- Obscure city business office staffed by mayor’s friend, NYPD lieutenant
- De Blasio aides said effort to buy controversial East Village school was ‘nuts,’ new emails show
- Obscure business group close to Cuomo spends millions in race’s final days
- Can REBNY get its groove back?
Patch
- Harlem Clergy Took Secret Cash As They Sold Churches To Developer: AG
- Harlem Church To Be Evicted In City’s Affordable Housing Deal
- Midtown Garden Reopens To Public After School’s 20-Year Takeover
- Families Displaced From Midtown Shelter To Make Room For UWS Men
- She Protested In Seattle, Then Spent 2 ‘Terrifying’ Days In Jail
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- How Jon Potter became the ‘modern-day Mr. Rogers’ of the Pittsburgh internet
- In Washington, Pa., a ‘recovery town’ embarks on one of its own
- One year since a court ruling threatened public sector unions, leaders say they’re in good shape
Burlington Free Press
- How the ‘I grew up in Vermont!’ Facebook group is bringing 9,000 people together
- TSA agent creates GoFundMe page to cover his expenses amid government shutdown
The Middlebury Campus
- “He was too good”: Remembering Former College Employee Suad Teocanin
- Staff Cuts Loom as Workforce Planning Hits Critical Stage
- Middlebury Evacuated its School in Cameroon. Was it the Right Decision?
As managing editor, I led the development of a special issue of the Campus, focusing on college workers. The rest of my work at the Campus can be accessed here.
Longform/investigative work
‘Black Tuesday Revisited’ (for VTDigger)
A fellow student and I spent four months in the spring of 2019 reporting this piece on the disastrous layoffs that shook Middlebury College in 1991. We investigated the decisions that led to the layoffs, tracked down the people involved, and discovered how the layoffs relate to the current small-college enrollment crisis. It was published by VTDigger in September 2019.
‘Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted’
In January of my freshman year, I took a Winter Term course in Literary Journalism. The culmination of that course was a 4,000-word feature that I wrote about a local tattoo/piercing shop, and about the body modification industry more generally: “Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted.”
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