Featured Works

The Tik Tok Trail
The New Yorker (cover story)
January 2025

The Candy Sellers
New York Magazine (cover story)
‍August 2024

You Should Start Writing Letters
The New York Times
July 2020

He's the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City's Accordions
The New York Times
November 2021

Colombia's Guardians: They're defending their land and paying with their lives
National Geographic Magazine
March 2022

All Stories

(favorites starred)

The Questions We Don’t Ask in Time (Essay) – National Geographic / December 2024

Into the Amazon: Special Issue (Feature Writer) – National Geographic / October 2024

*The Candy Sellers (Cover Story) – New York Magazine / August 2023

*The Last Train to Patagonia (Feature) – National Geographic / April 2023

*A master of the grandfather clock reveals time’s hidden history (Feature) – National Geographic / September 2022

*Finding peace on a 72-hour train across America (Essay) – National Geographic / July 2022

DNA recovery attempt begins on last American slave ship (Feature) – National Geographic / May 2022

She navigated a 3,000-mile Pacific voyage without maps or technology (Feature) – National Geographic / May 2022

*More than 300 languages are spoken along this NYC street (Feature) – National Geographic / April 2022

*They’re defending their land and paying with their lives (Magazine) – National Geographic Magazine / March 2022 issue

*He’s the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s Accordions (Nonfiction) – The New York Times / November 2021

Luis Soriano had a dream, two donkeys, and a lot of books (Nonfiction) – Atlas Obscura / November 2021

(Excerpt from Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena)

How to Travel the World…By Radio (Essay) – National Geographic / October 2021

*Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island (Nonfiction) – Scientific American / October 2021

Excerpted from the anthology Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau (2021)

*How the Colombian Band Morat is Winning Over a Global Audience (Feature) – The New York Times / October 2021

(Leer en español: Morat, la banda colombiana que conquista el mundo al ritmo del banjo)

The Real Story Behind the World’s “Wandering Rocks” (Nonfiction) – National Geographic Magazine / May 2021 Issue

*Bringing the Diaspora to the Dinner Table (Essay) – NYT Opinion / January 2021

Queens, one of the first COVID-19 epicenters, faces a new crisis: hunger (Feature) – National Geographic / December 2020

(Leer en español: Queens, uno de los primeros epicentros de COVID-19 en EEUU, se enfrenta a una nueva crisis: el hambre)

*A Letter to My Generation: Coming of Age Amid COVID-19 (Essay) – National Geographic Magazine / November 2020 Issue

(Read also: ‘We Still See Silver Linings‘ on NatGeo.com)

The Earth is on Fire (Essay) – Scientific American Magazine / October 2020

*The Shark Fishermen of New York (Feature) – The New York Times – Sunday Metro / September 2020

The Great Au Pair Rush (Feature) – The New York Times – Sunday Business / July 2020

You Should Start Writing Letters (Essay) – NYT Opinion / July 2020

*The Photographer Recreating 120-Year-Old Images of Patagonia (Nonfiction) – Culture Trip / July 2020

What’s Next for the Class of 2020? (Nonfiction) – National Geographic / June 2020

At an HIV Clinic in Queens, a Sense of Home Hangs in the Balance (Essay) – Scientific American / May 2020

From a Balcony, The Sights and Sounds of Senior Year (Essay) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / May 2020

How the Stunning Scarlet Macaw Returned to Honduras (Feature) – Smithsonian Magazine / April 2020

*When It’s Safer to Stay Apart (Essay) – Scientific American / March 2020

Railcar Enthusiast Will French Enjoys the Journey (Feature) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / March 2020

A Women-Only Indigenous Co-Op in Guatemala is Weaving to Protect its Community (Feature) – Culture Trip / February 2020

*The Fear of Being Jewish (Essay) – NYT Opinion / January 2020

A Taste of Syria in the Andes (Nonfiction) – Tablet Magazine / January 2020

*Hallmark Thinks Jewish People Have No Clue What Christmas Is (Essay) – NYT Opinion / December 2019

*A Warming Climate is Changing Sukkot (Essay) – NYT Opinion / October 2019

*From Baghdad to Queens: An Iraqi Community Remembers (Essay) – The Forward / July 2019

Land of Castles: Walking Princeton’s Campus with Art Garfunkel (Essay) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / April 2019

Dinner for Somebody: The Lake Carnegie Fishermen (Nonfiction) – Nassau Weekly / April 2019

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, grassroots opposition stalls another hydropower project (Feature with video) – Mongabay.com / April 2019

The Master Jeweler (Nonfiction) – ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America / February 2019

Take a Ride on these Private Railroad Cars Known as “Yachts on Rails” (Radio Feature) – All Things Considered (NPR) / April 2018

Repurposed (Nonfiction) – Princeton Alumni Weekly / June 2017

A Story from the Jungle (Fiction) – Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal / April 2017

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