selected writing
NEWS & CULTURE
L.A. Times: Hollywood Assistants Aren’t in the Writers Guild. They’re Still Hit Hard by the Strike (2023)
The New Republic: The Year When Everyone Bullied Their Mayor (2021)
GEN: What Was the Nasty Woman? (2020)
The New Republic: The Ballot Initiative That Could Change How You Think About Defunding the Police (2020)
theLAnd: Holly Mitchell is Ready to Take on Los Angeles (2020)
Marie Claire: Inside Churchome, the Celebrity-Endorsed Megachurch (2019)
theLAnd: L.A.’s Country Music Scene is Processing Two Mass Shootings in Two Years (2019)
Rolling Stone: Las Vegas Cab Driver on How City Is Surviving (2017)
Rolling Stone: How Democratic Socialists are Building on Bernie's Momentum (2017)
VICE: What It's Like to Sell Political Merchandise for a Living (2016)
MEL: Pick-Up Artists See a Kindred Spirit in Trump (2016)
VICE: There's a Network of Christians Praying for Hollywood and the Film Industry (2016)
TAKEPART: How this Tiny Clinic is Fighting for Trans Patients Illegally Denied Medical Care (2015) Nominated for GLAAD Media Awards’ Outstanding Digital Journalism Article
TRUE CRIME & COURTS
The Cut: A Murder Solved in DMs (2022)
LA Weekly: A Sexual Harassment Scandal Has Imploded at Cinefamily. Can It Be Saved? (2017); Finalist, News Feature, L.A. Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards
LA Weekly: Why Is It So Hard to Catch Drink-Drugging Assholes? (2016); Finalist, Best News Feature, L.A. Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards
VICE: CSI Fur Fest: The Unsolved Case of a Gas Attack at a Furry Convention (2016)
VICE: Murder by Prescription: Is it the Doctor's Fault When a Patient Overdoses? (2015)
VICE: Can Locking Up Pill-Pushing Doctors Put an End to Prescription Drug Abuse? (2015)
VICE: Elisa Lam Drowned in a Water Tank 2 Years ago. The Obsession With Her Death Lives On (2015)
ENTERTAINMENT
L.A. Times: How VHS Store Whammy! Became the L.A. Hub of a Rewind Revolution (2022)
L.A. Times: How the Elysian Theater Pushes the Limits of Live Performance (2022)
Vanity Fair: The Shockingly Melancholy Britney Spears Documentary You’ve Never Heard Of (2021)
Washington Post: How Kaitlyn Bristowe Became Bachelor Nation’s Unlikely Lifestyle Guru (2019)
Rolling Stone: Versace, Champagne and Gold: Meet the Director Turning Porn Into High Art (2018)
Rolling Stone: Is the Porn Industry Doing Enough for Performers' Mental Health? (2018)
Washington Post: Meet the Dominatrixes Who Control Men Where it Really Hurts: Their Wallets (2018)
Washington Post: A New Wave of Comedians Is Exploring the Anxieties of our Instagram Age (2018)
L.A Times: Rapper Sirah is Leading a Movement to Better Understand Mental Health in the Music Community (2018)
Interview: Brigette Lundy-Paine is the New Player in Town (2018)
SELF: Ruby Rose Isn't Who You Say She Is (2017)
Curbed: The Rise of 'Three Car Garage Rock (2017)
VICE: One Man's 14-Year Fight to Get Weird Al a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2017)
MEL: 'Small Hands,' Big Porn Career (2017)
L.A. Weekly: Comedian Moshe Kasher Wants to be the New Phil Donahue (2017)
L.A. Weekly: These LA Comedians Are Turning Their Women's Basketball League into a Phenomenon (2015); 1st Place, Best Entertainment Feature, L.A. Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards
L.A. Weekly: Jessie Andrews, The Porn Star as a Brand (2013)
CALIFORNIA STORIES
Curbed: How Gilroy Became the Garlic Capital of the World (2018) Named an honorable mention in Best American Food Writing, 2019
Curbed: The future of Historic Filipinotown (2018)
Curbed: How a Tiny Town Fought a Wildfire Without Fire Hydrants (2017)
VICE: How a Beloved Puppet Theater Became a Battleground in the LA Gentrification Wars (2016)
Curbed: The Last Artists’ Haven in Los Angeles (2016)
