American writer and editor based in Taipei
About
After 13 years in New York, I moved to Taipei in 2022. I’ve written for the New York Times, the Guardian, New York, Marie Claire, Time, Vogue, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, The Cut, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Elle, Town and Country, the Hollywood Reporter, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, and more.
Work
Primarily, I share the stories of women, from celebrities in a tough spot, such as Michelle Branch and Paris Hilton, to those opening up about sexual abuse, including a survivor of child porn, a daughter born of incest, and the plaintiff in the largest-ever revenge porn case. I’ve spoken with politicians, like the senator who lost her election after voting against Brett Kavanaugh, New York’s first female attorney general, and the youngest Black woman to serve in Congress. I’ve interviewed moms who were addicted to opiates, and young women about how to afford rehab. I’ve examined how much female officers could address police brutality, why mothers get abortions, and why the number of women in prison is up 1,260% in a generation. I’ve talked to women who had their designs stolen by global corporations, who had giant financial windfalls, who survived time on Rikers Island, and who successfully sued or were forced to perform for Donald Trump.
I’ve conceived and produced multimedia packages about the disastrous state of America’s teachers (the Guardian), abortion and the 2022 mid-term elections (Cosmo), and women’s feelings about guns (Marie Claire)—for which I brokered an original study with Harvard, edited writers like Roxane Gay, and oversaw multiple video and photo shoots.
Editorial packages
Editing
I’ve had short-term editing stints at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, House Beautiful, Refinery29, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Business of Home, and Publisher’s Weekly. I was previously on staff at Teen Vogue, Seventeen, and Glamour.
Pop culture and politics
I have a column for Conde Nast Traveler in which I’ve asked 85+ celebs about their packing routines and past trips. As an editor at Seventeen, I wrote the first American cover stories with Harry Styles, Zendaya, and Kylie Jenner.
Branded content
I’ve written for Bumble, The Helm, Barney’s, the Natural Diamond Council, and True Religion, and worked on branded content for Etihad, Rolex, Dell, and IWC.
Podcast
I formerly cohosted Royally Obsessed, the first podcast launched at Vayner Media, garnering over a million listens in a year and leading to television appearances on Good Morning America, 20/20, and MSNBC, as well as in Argentina, the U.K., Canada, and the Philippines.