I first started telling stories as a ballet and modern dancer, performing with companies in Minneapolis and New York.
Now, I’m telling them through sound. I’ve reported on everything from the security of America’s election voting machines to the history of how the rainbow flag became a social and political symbol; from the economics of worrying to a full-life inquiry into the making of Ivanka Trump.
Currently, I’m a reporter at Marketplace, a business and economics program that airs on NPR, where I focus on the consumer economy — international and small businesses, retail and hospitality, hourly workers and consumer behavior. I also teach audio journalism at my alma mater, Columbia Journalism School.
My first journalism job was writing about ballet, modern dance and Broadway at Dance Magazine.