I'm an American journalist and producer based in Prague, Czech Republic. My work has appeared in print, online, and on the radio for places like The Atlantic, GQ, BBC, Politico EU, National Public Radio, Deutsche Welle, Monocle, The World, and Radio Prague (Český rozhlas).
These days, I mainly do what I love best: making podcasts. Most recently, I worked on the BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds series The New Gurus and the Audible Original 93 Women. I’ve collaborated with the brilliant minds at Tortoise on the award-winning Slow Newscast and the latest season of ThinkIn with James Harding, a series of panel discussions on Xi Jinping’s China, and have produced many episodes of the hit series True Spies. In late 2020 and 2021, I created, produced, and edited Foreign Insiders, a 10-episode podcast series about migration to the Czech Republic that begins and ends with the stories of refugees.
I believe audio journalism has a unique ability to capture and keep the attention of news-fatigued audiences. My new newsletter, Six Hundred Seeds, seeks to equip journalists and producers telling difficult stories with the tools to develop compelling, solutions-oriented documentaries and series that will keep listeners tuning in.
I hold a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, earned my MA from the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Univerzita Karlova in Prague, and received a certificate in Radio Production at the National Film School at IADT, Ireland.
The journalism podcast Foreign Correspondence was kind enough to invite me to speak about my (rather circuitous) career journey, just as I was rounding the bend into audio. It’s a window into a weird time of life that you can find over here.