About

journalist

I’m a journalist based in Los Angeles. My work has appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, Air Mail, The Wrap, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, VICE, and the Columbia Daily Spectator. As a moderator, I have led panels at SXSW, VidCon, On Air Fest, and Podcast Movement, among others.

I most recently served as the digital media writer at The Hollywood Reporter, where my coverage focused on the creator economy, the audio and podcast industry, the business of streaming, and new technology disrupting the entertainment industry. Stories included deep dives into Spotify’s podcasting business and employee turmoil at Netflix, as well as features on subjects like Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence’s personal assistant, and the travel creators known as the Bucket List Family.

As a media and politics reporter for The Wrap, I reported on the lack of accountability in Hollywood’s hiring practices and covered the #MeToo movement and Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial in New York. I also appeared as a guest on The Wrap’s weekly podcast, while TV and radio appearances included interviews with BBC News and BBC Radio 5, KPCC’s The Frame, Democracy Now!, and the Daily Dive podcast.

Prior to joining The Wrap in 2019, I was an editorial fellow at The Atlantic on the culture desk. There, I reported on how young musicians have been contending with a culture of abuse in the classical music industry, the stereotypical depictions of immigrants on television, and the ubiquity of dyed blond hair on people of color. I also wrote a weekly newsletter about The Atlantic’s books coverage and answered reader-submitted questions.

Outside of culture coverage, I’ve reported on the higher education beat as an intern at the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as through my work at the Columbia Daily Spectator. At the Chronicle, I investigated college counseling malpractice at high schools in a low-income school district in Memphis, Tennessee, ultimately leading the school county board to begin its own investigation into the matter. I also analyzed backlash to the lack of diversity in the medieval studies field, resulting in a number of prominent scholarly groups and medieval conferences releasing statements detailing how they would improve their diversity efforts.

As a reporter and, later, the managing editor for Columbia University’s independent daily newspaper, weekly magazine, and blog, I uncovered five years’ worth of formal complaints about a sexist and toxic work environment fostered by the director of Barnard’s career services office. My analysis of Barnard’s vaguely worded trans admissions policy led the admissions office to publicly clarify how it would enforce the policy, and a data-driven investigation into Columbia’s compliance with a provision in the Higher Education Opportunity Act prompted the provost to publicly remind faculty that they needed to comply with the provision. The following year, compliance rates improved by 20 percent.

I received my Bachelor of Arts in English in 2018 from Barnard College of Columbia University.

violist

Outside of my career as a journalist, I am a conservatory-trained classical musician. I began playing the violin at the age of 4 under the tutelage of Li Lin; 11 years later, I decided to focus on the viola and joined the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College, studying with the violist Jodi Levitz. After moving to New York to attend college, I studied with the violist Karen Ritscher through the Barnard–Manhattan School of Music exchange program.

I made my orchestral solo debut at the age of 11 as the winner of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra’s Concerto Competition and, in the summer of 2014, my international solo debut in Courmayeur, Italy, where I performed the Rebecca Clarke Viola Sonata with the pianist Mack McCray. I am also the 2013 winner of the Northern California Viola Society’s Young Violists Competition.

As an orchestral musician, I served as the principal violist of the Columbia University Orchestra from 2015–2018. Before then, I was the associate principal violist of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2013–2014; in 2012, I also performed on the orchestra’s European tour as a section violist in concert halls in Berlin, Munich, and Salzburg (a recording of the SFSYO performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at the Berlin Philharmonie is available on the San Francisco Symphony label).

As a chamber musician, I won the inaugural Galante Prize from San Francisco State University with the Chiaroscuro String Quartet in 2014. I have also performed in the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar, the Music at Kohl Mansion series, and Chamber Music Day at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, as well as in masterclasses with the Miró Quartet, the St. Lawrence Quartet, the Ying Quartet, and the Alexander String Quartet, among others. I’ve also participated in the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival.

Other concerts include performances for the Aspen Ideas Festival, Broadway by the Bay, the San Francisco Symphony Auxiliary, and an honorary concert for Ravi Shankar at the Museum of Music Making in San Diego, as well as TV appearances on the KTSF 26 Evening News and the BBC World News.