As a journalist, she covers housing, transportation, arts and books, businesses, and local news. She is a Daily Editor at the Chicago Review of Books and writes for the Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, South Side Weekly, Stacker, and other publications.
Housing, Transit, and Cities
- From New York to LA, Public Transportation Is Turning High-Tech — Stacker
- Beyond the COVID dashboard: How local governments are continuing to invest in public data initiatives — Stacker
- These 6 metros have the highest share of remote workers. Here’s what they reveal about the future of remote work — Stacker
- Blue Line blues — Chicago Reader
- “No new revenue without reform” — Chicago Reader
- The Twin Fates of Two-Flats — South Side Weekly
- The CTA’s missing riders — Chicago Reader | Finalist for 2024 Sarah Brown Boyden Awards in Features
- Roots and Roofs: Building Wealth Through Chicago’s Two-Flats — Change Agents: The Podcast | Finalist for 2025 Peter Lisagor Awards
- Bronzeville’s future as a real estate “gem” threatens its legacy as Chicago’s Black Metropolis — City Bureau
- COVID’s Long Shadow — South Side Weekly
- City council talks transit accountability — Chicago Reader
- Q&A: Keeping Black Wealth in Bronzeville — City Bureau
- The moment met the CTA — Chicago Reader | Finalist for 2024 Sarah Brown Boyden Awards in Features
- CTA Workers Put Pressure on Agency to Improve Working Conditions — South Side Weekly
- Organizers Demand Affordable Housing Protections at CBA Summit — South Side Weekly and Hyde Park Herald
- Title 42 Is Ending. What’s Next For Immigration? — Borderless Magazine
- Blue Tin Productions Lays the Foundation for Ethical Manufacturing — South Side Weekly
Books and Literature
- “All this doesn’t inoculate you from racism:” A Conversation with Nancy Johnson — Chicago Review of Books
- Land, The First Frontier: An Interview with Michael Albertus about “Land Power” — Chicago Review of Books
- Creation Flows Both Ways in “Death of the Author” — Chicago Review of Books
- Mythic Pasts and Displacement in “The Rage of Replacement” — Chicago Review of Books
- Marguerite L. Harrold explores Chicago house music in new book — The TRiiBE
- Black Chicago Touches Everything: A Conversation with Arionne Nettles — Chicago Review of Books
- Chicago in Flux: An Interview with Gregory Royal Pratt about “The City is Up for Grabs” — Chicago Review of Books
- Logging on for “Extremely Online” — Chicago Review of Books
- The Potential and Promise of Parole: An Interview with Ben Austen About “Correction” — Chicago Review of Books
- “I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times” follows its road home — Chicago Reader
- Rediscovering Frank London Brown — Chicago Reader
- The Specters of “Yellowface” — Chicago Review of Books
- Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair — Chicago Reader
- Found Family, Forests, and Fantastical Storytelling from “In the Lives of Puppets” — Chicago Review of Books
- Poet José Olivarez Attempts to Resist Empire in “Promises of Gold” — South Side Weekly
- “Blissing Out:” Ling Ma’s “Bliss Montage” Stretches the Familiar into the Surreal — South Side Weekly and Hyde Park Herald
- Community, Nostalgia, and Vaporub — South Side Weekly
Local News
- Illinois expanded tax credits for some workers and families but not all of the money is claimed, experts say — Chicago Sun-Times
- Tax season is in full swing. Here’s what you need to prepare. — Chicago Sun-Times
- First Gear Skateshop Moves From Berwyn To Bridgeport, Boosting South Side Skate Culture — Block Club Chicago
- City’s First Plus-Size Thrift Store Struggling As Construction Takes Over Logan Square Stretch — Block Club Chicago
- Granville Avenue Overhaul Could Make Dangerous Stretch Safer, City Says — Block Club Chicago
- Want to apply for the new Illinois rental assistance program? Here’s what landlords, tenants should know — Chicago Sun-Times
- Edgewater’s DMApothecary Opens Tea Bar On Shop’s 2nd Anniversary — Block Club Chicago
- Kelvyn Park High School Would Lose Its 7th And 8th Grade Classes Under CPS Plan — Block Club Chicago
- Investment scams like crypto and romance are on the rise, BBB study says — Chicago Sun-Times
- Rogers Park Street Turned Into Public Plaza As Part Of Clark Street Upgrades — Block Club Chicago
- Bridgeport Records Brings House Music Vinyl Shop To The South Side — Block Club Chicago
- Moroccan Designer Opens West Ridge Shop That’s A Love Letter To Her Home Country — Block Club Chicago
- COVID’s Long Shadow — South Side Weekly
- West Side Community Gardeners Take Their Skills Home — Block Club Chicago
- Changing of the Guard in Chicago’s City Council — South Side Weekly
Arts and Culture
- A picture of protest — Chicago Reader
- Andrés Lemus-Spont centers relationships in his work — Chicago Reader
- The Women’s LIVE Artist Studio aims to inspire — Chicago Reader
- Steppenwolf’s “1919” Brings Eve Ewing’s Poetry to Vivid and Insightful Life — Chicago Maroon
- Q&A with Fantastical Artist Martha A. Wade — South Side Weekly
- Q&A with Little Village Oil Painter Sebastian Silverio — South Side Weekly
- South Side Photographer Akilah Townsend Captures the Palette of the City — South Side Weekly
- “Leave Me Alone:” Q&A with Hailey Marie Losselyong, Creator of HML Art & Design — South Side Weekly
- Stillness Complicated by Corners — In Practice: UChicago Arts Blog
University and Nonprofit Copywriting
- Let’s Talk about Mental Health Town Hall — The People’s Lobby
- Securing the Progressive Revenue That Working Class Communities Need to Thrive — The People’s Lobby
- Confronting Tax Cuts and Corporate Greed in D.C. — The People’s Lobby
- Raising our voices in Springfield: Lobby Day report back — The People’s Lobby
- The 2024 Pearson Global Forum Spotlighted Negotiation and Agreement Around the Globe — The Pearson Institute
- Transformational Scholar, Institute Director, Nobel Laureate — The Pearson Institute
- Beyond Scarcity: Capturing Human Experiences with the Global Water Crisis — Northwestern Buffett
- Charting the Path for Effective & Ethical AI in Journalism — Northwestern Buffett
- Mapping Out Extreme Heat Resilience Strategies for Cities — Northwestern Buffett
- Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Global Security: Inside the Northwestern Security & AI Lab — Northwestern Buffett
- Board Member Q&A: Thea Durfee Polancic Makes a Difference Through Leadership Development — Easterseals Serving Chicagoland and Greater Rockford
- How Can Universities Prepare Tomorrow’s Leaders to Use Big Data for Social Good? — Stanford Impact Labs
- Leading with Curiosity: A Q&A with Stephanie Champi, Liaison to our Associate Board — Easterseals Serving Chicagoland and Greater Rockford
- COP28 Takeaways from Northwestern’s Delegation — Northwestern Buffett
- Northwestern’s Third Delegation to COP28 Joins Global Partners in Fight Against Climate Change — Northwestern Buffett
- U7+ Student Challenge Team Tackles Sustainable Electric Vehicle Battery Production — Northwestern Buffett
- Undergraduate Research Assistant Develops New Passion for Antibiotic Resistance — Northwestern Buffett
- Northwestern Buffett Global Social Innovation Hubs in Tokyo and Toronto Catalyze Transnational Research to Address Global Challenges — Northwestern Buffett
- Former French President François Hollande Delivers Northwestern Buffett Lecture — Northwestern Buffett
- Solutions-Oriented Research is a Badly-Needed Shift in Culture — Stanford Impact Labs
- Six new grant awards support HarrysButtons expansion — Easterseals Serving Chicagoland and Greater Rockford
- Healing Resistance: A Conversation with Author Kazu Haga —The PartnersGlobal Institute
- Good vs. Toxic Polarization: Insights from Activists and Peacebuilders — The PartnersGlobal Institute
Nonprofit Reports
- Buffett Institute 2023 Briefs: 1) Defusing Disasters, 2) Epistemic Reparations, 3) Empowering the Next Generation of Global Women, 4) Making Water Insecurity Visible, 5) Trauma, Music and the Breath, Northwestern University
- Pearson Global Forum 2022 Report: Discrimination & Marginalization: 1) Opening Remarks, 3) Discrimination and Marginalization in the Digital Era, 4) A New Colombia, 5) Decolonizing Palestine 6) Crisis in Lebanon, 7) How to Make Multidimensional Poverty Visible and Actionable, 8) Social Cost of Discrimination, 9) Discriminatory Bias in Media Coverage of Conflict 10) Why We Fight — The Pearson Institute