Currently based in western Massachusetts, I am a journalist with over ten years of experience. I grew up in the Midwest and have lived in many parts of the United States, including both coasts and Alaska. For a year and a half after college, I worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've traveled widely in Latin America and speak Spanish comfortably.

Highlights of my public radio career include hosting Evening Rounds, a weekly health program on KUAC-FM in Fairbanks, Alaska, for nearly four years and producing feature stories on topics as unrelated as franchisee ownership, permafrost in Siberia and Nobel Laureate José Ramos-Horta's visit to UC Berkeley.

My print reporting includes a feature piece in the New York Times Education Life supplement about the growth of semester schools and a town profile of Greenfield, Massachusetts for the Boston Globe. I reviewed a permanent sound installation at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks for Discover and a two-stroke snow machine for Newsweek.

My work at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism included a trip to Mexico City to report on the feuding among phone companies, a piece for The Oregonian about the laying of a new undersea fiber optic cable and a radio documentary about AIDS patients' use of complementary and alternative medicine. As an undergraduate at Wellesley College, I traveled to Cuba for research about the role of women in the island's revolution.

One of my current interests is writing a book about naturopathic medicine, a young profession whose members possess great tenacity and perseverance--traits necessary in a freelance journalism career as well.

When I’m not working, I enjoy swimming, reading, hiking, baking and exploring with my inquisitive little boy. My partner, son and I also share our home with a furry grey cat.