My story

I work at the intersection of journalism, media, and public affairs and exist between the serious, the creative, and the whimsical…and have made a career curating conversations, cultivating information, and bridging the gap between experts, policy, and ordinary people.

Currently, I head communications at The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, which is a leading creator and disseminator knowledge against violence. When our founder created the foundation in 1929, he was interested in investigating why humans, despite all our evolution and development, still commit terrible acts of violence. That question remains deeply relevant, and perhaps equally befuddling, nearly a hundreds years later. At HFG, I oversee the strategic development of our publications and the expansion of our audiences.

This is an exciting new chapter, and pivot, from how I spent most of my career.

Before that, I was the chief Africa Correspondent for NPR’s The World, the largest international news program on American public radio. From my base in Nairobi, I traveled across Africa and brought hundreds of stories across breadth of human experience to 1.5 million listeners in North America every week.

From the triumph of an athlete underdog, to the pain of displacement from war and violence, I craved human emotion and experience, told through expert audio craft. I’m proud of having expanded our radio and digital coverage in Africa, hustling small planes in Somalia and crises like Covid-19. overseeing coverage…

When I wasn’t busy overseeing coverage and reporting at a fast-paced, I took things slower as a host.

Somehow, energy. Locations producer. All gave foundation to a screenplay.

While wide range of clients, experiences, and roles—at core to generate that feeling my first day working in radio at WBUR’s On Point. Quiet…host speaks. Millions people listening, around for an hour —tuned into a conversation, talking topics serious and lighthearted…that is the meaning of life.

At my best — toggle between the serious and bleak, and the artistic…current affairs “hard news,” and wimpsy, stories of inspiration.

Start in public media, including WBUR and WETA ignited interest in bringing together listeners, experts, hosts for smart but accessible conversations about things th

In that way, creative and people curator—people, places, things.

Awards and Fellowships:

Investigative Reporters and Editors

I graduated from Columbia University with a degree in history.

I was raised in Princeton, New Jersey and lived in Türkiye and Kenya before returning to New York City in 2025.