Writing

I have more than ten years of professional writing and editing experience including environmental documentation, research reports, journalism, technical writing, and creative writing. My work has been published in newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters, blogs, zines, government websites, and reference websites. Find a selection of my work below.

Selected Work

Academic

See Research page for additional detail.

Climate and Environment

• Senate designates September 14-21, 2019 as National Estuaries Week (The Bay Link, September 2019)
• New bill would help San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s resiliency efforts (The Bay Link, July 2019; also featured on ABAG website)
• Community Challenge Grant Funds New Interpretive Signs on Mount Sutro (Sutro Stewards Blog, July 2019)
• How to Not Give Your Money to the People Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline: A Guide to Divesting (The Bold Italic, January 2017)
• Standing Rock is Only the Beginning (SF Examiner, December 2016)
• Water is Life: Staring Climate Change in the Face on Mount Kilimanjaro (AFAR, August 2016)
• K-Cup or Not-OK-Cup? (Jollity, March 2015)
• ‘The White Fire’ Blazes Through Los Padres National Forest (The Bottom Line, May 2013)
• Painted Cave Fire Contained, Firefighters Maintain Watch on Area (The Bottom Line, October 2012)

Politics and Policy

• Hundreds Protest Trump Cabinet Picks Outside Senator Feinstein’s SF Office (Hoodline, January 2017)
• What, Exactly, is the Soda Tax? A Summarized, No-Nonsense San Francisco Voter Guide (The Bold Italic, November 2016)
• Back From the Debt: Students, Workers Stand Up to School Privatization at UC Regents Meetings (The Bottom Line, June 2012)
• San Francisco Appeals Court Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional (The Bottom Line, February 2012)

Housing and Homelessness

• With Only 2 Navigation Centers, Which Homeless Encampments Get Priority? (Hoodline, December 2016)
• Tent Encampment Measure Passes, but Implementation Remains Unclear (Hoodline, November 2016)
• Common Ground Releases Quarterly Report: Progress with Santa Barbara’s Homeless (The Bottom Line, October 2011)

Crime and Policing

• Have Uber and Lyft Reduced Drunk Driving in San Francisco? (The Bold Italic, October 2017)
• Deltopia 2013 Brings Larger Crowds, More Arrests and Injuries (The Bottom Line, April 2013)
• Santa Barbara Police Cars Outfitted with Cameras (The Bottom Line, February 2013)
• Constant UCSB Alerts Not Due to Spike in Crime, Just an Increase in Notifications (The Bottom Line, September 2012)

Science, Business, and Human Interest

• Mount Sutro Bioblitz Recap (Sutro Stewards Blog, March 2018)
• We Live on Ohlone Land. But What Does That Mean? (The Bold Italic, September 2017)
• BAVC Celebrates 20 Years in the Mission (Hoodline, November 2016)
• I Lived in a 38-Person Co-op in San Francisco, and So Can You (The Bold Italic, September 2016; also picked up by Business Insider)
• Minerva: The College with the World as its Campus (AFAR, August 2016)
• Compound Medicine: Exploring the Potential of Medical Marijuana (Jollity, June 2015)
• UCSB Student Killed by Fall From Balcony Early Thanksgiving Morning (The Bottom Line, November 2012)
• Netflix Loses Subscribers, Suffers Stock Market Drop Following Changes to Business Plan (The Bottom Line, November 2011)

Stories and Travelogues

• How I Encountered the Kindness of Strangers in One of the Wildest Places in the World (AFAR, 2017)
• Nayarit, Mexico: El Panadero de Sayulita (Odyssa Magazine, 2017)
• Nature’s Lasagna (Invironment, 2016)
• The Ebb and the Flow (The Catalyst, 2015)
• The Dawn Balloon Rosary (2016)

Poetry

• Sound Collage for a Bicycle Commute (The Remembered Arts Journal, August 2016)
• From Every Footstep / LISTEN / Fuck (The Offbeat, Fall 2016)
• I Want to Watch You Grow (Arrow Magazine, May 2016)
• Branching / Joy-Song (SunStruck, March 2016)
• Jar / Foggy Morning in the Channel (The Catalyst, 2014)