My reporting has been awarded a National Press Foundation Fellowship for Food and Agriculture reporting, an Institute for Natural Resources and Journalism fellowship and time at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and Tin House Writing Conference. I also served as a Guild Hall Artist-in-Residence from 2022 - 2024, working with Bridgehampton Union Free School District on a narrative-writing workshop focusing on nature.

I started my media career as a publicist for Forbes Magazine working in New York City for five years. Pitching news stories to television, radio and print, I managed the publicity for lists like the Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Billionaires and Forbes 400.

I am an ocean and climate journalist. Part of the Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network (23-24), my reporting focuses on aquaculture, fisheries and climate. My writing appears in the New York Times, the Guardian, Outside Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Sierra Magazine, The Daily Beast, Forbes, The Fish Site, Civil Eats and Roads and Kingdoms, among others. In 2024, I investigated the American seaweed industry for Civil Eats. Other topics I have covered include Long Island’s sewage crisis, Indigenous fishing rights in the North East, the environmental spark of Lebanon’s 2019 revolution and New York farmers fighting for food security during the Covid-19 pandemic. For four years, I was the host of television program "South Fork Sea Farmers" on LTV-EH.

In 2022-2023, I was awarded a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan where I retrained in ocean and climate science at the graduate level.

I am a certified ocean lifeguard, scuba diver and lifelong surfer.

Before becoming an environmental journalist, I spent the majority of my career abroad, reporting in the Caribbean and Middle East. I can speak conversational Arabic, Spanish and Italian. Moving to Beirut when I was 23, I spent nearly a decade in Lebanon, calling both Beirut and the small surf town of Batroûn home. My story on LGBTQ+ rights in Lebanon was honored with an LA Press Club award. My travel writing in El Salvador was honored with a silver Lowell Thomas in 2019. In 2015, I was the founding Editor-in-Chief of StepFeed in the Middle East.