I graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and started writing for places like Time Out Chicago and Chicago magazine back when the former was still in print and still very much a bible for what was cool in the city. After moving back to Southern California, I worked for years at L.A. Weekly, first as an editorial assistant turned culture reporter and later as an editor. When that paper was sold and gutted, my colleagues and I founded our own publication, called theLAnd, where I edited long-form news and investigative pieces, among all the other stuff you end up doing at a DIY start-up. Around the same time, I edited magazine features as Epic magazine’s project manager and interim EIC.
I’ve also worked in research, development, and production on a handful of podcasts (iHeart, KCRW) and documentary series, including Refinery29’s Webby award-winning YouTube series Shady, the A24 and Higher Ground Netflix docuseries The G Word, and Vox’s HBO series Level Playing Field. Many of the stories I assigned and edited for the book Little America (MCD x FSG, 2020) became the basis of the second season of the Apple TV show of the same name.
yeah, I’ve always been like this.