I'm a Brooklyn-based English tutor, writer, editor and researcher with a B.A. in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

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Tutoring

I love nurturing young people's intellectual growth and academic success, and facilitating their development into life-long learners. I started my tutoring career at the Personal Learning Assistance Center (PLACe) at Miramar Junior College in San Diego, California, where I helped ESL students master English grammar and the art of the essay. While an undergraduate in the Bay Area, I also tutored LGBTQ kids at the Lavender Youth and Recreation Center in San Francisco. I can teach every iteration of the essay form (persuasive, narrative, expository and descriptive) to 4th grade students all the way up to college freshmen.​

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Writing

Whether personal essays, profiles or reported think pieces, my work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review (online), the Atlantic (online), the New Republic (online), CNN, Slate, the Daily Beast, Elle, Glamour, Marie Claire, O, and Out. I also served as a senior staff writer at Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global and as a contributing writer to the Advocate.

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Editing

In 2018, I turned my attention to editing People en Español's English language vertical Chica, where I edited pop cultural content targeting the Gen Z Latinx population. I also did a brief stint editing galleries, personal essays and reported pieces for PopSugar-Latina. 

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Researching/Fact-checking

I got my start in journalism as a fact-checker at Poz, a magazine devoted to people living with HIV and AIDS. Since then, I've vetted copy for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue (online), Seventeen, Dwell, Glamour, and iEEE Spectrum. Over the course of a decade, I oversaw the fact-checking departments of Elle and Us Weekly as both magazines' former Research Chief.