WRITING

I have written about the environment, history, and the arts for esteemed organizations and outlets including the National Park Service, World Wildlife Fund, Audubon Magazine, Mongabay, and Harvard Gazette.

Audubon Magazine

Meet the woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird in the world (November 2025)

Search for Lost Birds

Taxonomic mysteries of the lost birds list (October 2025)

Bismarck Kingfisher documented for the first time in 13 years (September 2025)

Solving the mystery of the Nechisar Nightjar (July 2025)

What happens when a lost bird is lost forever? (June 2025)

How the Vilcabamba Inca was documented for the first time in 57 years (March 2025)

Black-lored Waxbill photographed for the first time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (March 2025)

JSTOR Daily

Saguaro cactus: A desert sentinel’s prickly plight (July 2025)

Juneberry: A summer sweet for people, pollinators, and birds (June 2025)

Cerbera odollam: “The suicide tree” that harms and heals (May 2025)

Tradition in turmoil: Sugar maple and climate change (March 2025)

Azolla filiculoides: Balancing environmental promise and peril (November 2025)

Ghost of the forest: Monotropa uniflora (October 2025)

Dumbarton Oaks

The birds of Dumbarton Oaks (May 2025)

Environmental History Now

The case for weighing voles on your vacation (December 2024)

National Park Service

To seed or not to seed: A 2024 update on summit restoration in Acadia (August 2024)

Data from the citizen science Dragonfly Mercury Project support strengthened emissions standards nationwide (August 2024)

From idea to implementation: The making of a citizen science project (August 2024)

Citizen science data inform park managers of ecological threats (July 2024)

Middle-school citizen scientists track invasive crabs at Acadia National Park (July 2024)

Volunteer archivists decipher thousands of untold stories from the American Revolution (July 2024)

BESIDE Magazine

A short guide to alternative tree syrups (February 2024)

Mongabay

Bird-friendly maple syrup boosts Vermont forest diversity & resilience (December 2023)

Harvard Science Review

A tiny insect’s tremendous legacy (May 2023)

Harvard Gazette

Finishing his mother’s verse: Graduate's poetry taps into grief, Iranian roots (May 2023)

3 students share their love of the outdoors and park ranger life (April 2023)

Scene in Harvard Yard was classic Housing Day (March 2023)

Double the Housing Day suspense for ‘free agents’ (March 2023)

Harvard Crimson

Arts vanity: Bringing back Books and Liquor (December 2022)

‘Bliss Montage’ review: Ling Ma’s second release exceeds high expectations (October 2022)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater review: a triumphant return to the stage (May 2022)

Hasty Pudding honors Jennifer Garner as Woman of the Year (February 2022)

‘The Bluest Eye’ review: Toni Morrison would be proud (February 2022)

Andrew Lear’s ‘We Were There’ tour showcases the resilience of women and the LGBTQ+ community through art (November 2021)

‘RENT’ review: 25th anniversary tour has audiences ‘Over the Moon’ (October 2021)

'Titian: Women, Myth, & Power' exhibition leaves visitors in awe at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (September 2021)

Harvard’s English Department is better than ‘The Chair,’ I promise (September 2021)

Rosie O’Donnell brings light after Broadway goes dark with a virtual Actors Fund benefit (April 2020)

MFA celebrates powerful women in art on International Women’s Day (April 2020)

World Wildlife Fund

How gorilla tourism can benefit wildlife and people (September 2022)

Celebrating 20 years of protecting the Brazilian Amazon (September 2022)

How one Indigenous community uses high-tech tools to defend its territory (August 2022)