I live in New York City, and I work as an associate business and tech writer for Slate, covering topics ranging from social media to the financial industry to climate science to artificial intelligence. I also occasionally branch out to write about culture (especially rap music) and international politics (especially that which involves India). Some of my biggest stories include:

• Breaking the news of Twitter’s transformation into X Corp.;

• Speaking with longtime Quora users about the steady degradation of the site’s quality in recent years;

• Talking with former Deviants about how DeviantArt evolved from a once-essential digital gallery to a bot-ridden spamfest;

• Explaining the horrific tribulations of the current job market;

• Explaining the myriad impacts of DOGE’s slash-and-burn spree in the federal government;

• Profiling college students who oppose the saturation of A.I. in education;

• Uncovering the details of the work-from-home arrangement afforded to noted WFH opponent Malcolm Gladwell;

• Writing near-daily dispatches from the federal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (and covering his 2022 downfall in close detail);

• Chatting with Redditors about various moments of behind-the-scenes drama at the platform, including A.I. exploitation;

• Shining a spotlight, since 2020, on the growing influence of Hindu nationalism in the United States;

• Penning some of the only mainstream media coverage of why the phaseout of the music-notation software Finale is a big deal;

• Detailing, at length, my experience as a contributor to Twitter’s Community Notes;

• Gaining access to the Facebook Papers and writing a series about some of their most startling yet undercovered revelations;

• Reporting on labor organizing in the fast-food, music, media, gaming, and automotive industries (and on labor troubles across the tech sector);

• Meeting with UFC fans in the Las Vegas Valley to learn about their politics;

• Interviewing luminaries like Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, Shyne, Raekwon, Dave Davies, RZA and Jim Jarmusch, Big Boi and Sleepy Brown, Danny McBride, Reality Winner, Lisa Graves and Nancy MacLean, Rep. Ro Khanna, Jared Hess and Tyler Measom, the “Sickos” cartoonist (Ward Sutton), “the Menswear Guy” (Derek Guy), and the minds behind “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”;

• Breaking down the bizarre economics of creator compensation at Spotify, Peloton, and the controversial NFT company HitPiece;

• Contributing to major editorial projects like “Sly as Fox,” “The Oral History of Pitchfork,” “The 40 Greatest Stand-Alone TV Episodes of All Time,” “Fast-Food Week,” “Two Bad,” “The 16 Gangs That Rule American Politics,” “Airplane Mode,” “80 Over 8o,” “Goodbye, Trumpworld” (plus “Hello, Trumpworld”), “The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years,” “Trump’s Great American Crypto Scam,” “How the Heat Is Changing Us,” and our political live blogs.

In addition, I’ve spoken about these pieces (and more besides) on Slate podcasts like ICYMI, Slate Money, the Culture Gabfest, What Next and What Next: TBD, and Death, Sex, and Money, as well as on other shows like CBS News, On the Media, The Indicator From Planet Money, This Week in Tech, The Right Time With Bomani Jones, Apple News Today, The War on Cars, Real Talk, Texas Standard, The Attitude With Arnie Arnesen, Vox’s Today, Explained, KJZZ’s The Show, the Guardian’s Politics America Weekly, and SiriusXM’s Michelangelo Signorile Show, Laura Coates Show, and Julie Mason Mornings.

My Slate work has been reprinted in publications like Mother Jones, Wired, Grist, Canada’s National Observer, the Wire India, Letras Libres, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Yahoo News. My pieces have also been shouted out in publications like the New York Times, Mother Jones, Vox, NBC News, Business Insider, Scroll.in, the India Cable, Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, the Tampa Bay Times, CNN, HuffPost, the Atlantic, New York magazine, Literary Hub, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Gizmodo, Gothamist, Streetsblog, the Marshall Project, MIT Technology Review, the Verge, Poynter, Nieman Lab, Hyperallergic, RealClearMarkets, Ritholtz, Politico, CoinDesk, Futurism, Morning Brew, Naked Capitalism, Links I Would Gchat You if We Were Friends, Today in Tabs, Reliable Sources, Aftermath, the Week, Front Office Sports, Atrios, Garbage Day, Tangle News, Inverse, the Daily Kos, and Yahoo Finance.

I graduated from Michigan State University in 2017 with a Professional Writing degree, specializing in editing and publishing. I’ve also written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Passion of the Weiss.

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