<aside> 👋 I’m a bilingual writer and editor based in Iowa City, Iowa. Soy escritora y editora, y vivo en Iowa.

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Contact

📧 [email protected]

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EDUCATION

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island — 2012-2016

BA Moral Philosophy; BA English

UC San Diego Extension Studies

San Diego, California — 2021 (in-progress)

Professional Certificate Spanish-English Translation


PUBLISHED WORK (BOOKS)

Alone Together. Bogotá, Colombia: Bogota International Press, 2017. Pages 172-178. Paperpack.


SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK (MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, and DIGITAL)

***“*Women In Prison Are Struggling To Access Mental Health And Social Support When They Need It Most.” Women’s Health** (March 2023). A print feature documenting the continued lack of mental, emotional, and social health programming for women in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic.

**“Economic Mobility.” Boulder Weekly** (July-November 2020). A six-part series examining how COVID-19 and its economic fallout have changed conversations about solutions to homelessness.

**“Gov’t 101.” Boulder Beat** (November 2020). An encyclopedic webpage detailing who’s who and what’s what in Boulder’s city government; designed as a digestible “guide” for citizens interested in learning how to engage with and/or understand the inner workings of a city’s governmental structure.

**“Renewing Democracy.” Boulder Weekly** (July-October 2020). A four-part series analyzing community access to democracy during the pandemic, plus a critical examination of Boulder’s new electronic petitioning system (the first in the nation) and its role in the future of direct democracy. También traduje esta serie al español para nuestra comunidad hispanohablante.

**“The Fukushima Revival.” SB Nation Feature** (March 2020). I traveled to Fukushima, Japan to investigate how surfers are helping revive the economy of a community still affected by the wake of a tsunami and nuclear disaster.

**“A race against time.” Elevation Outdoors** (March 2020). As the Rocky Mountains’ glaciers melt faster than once feared, I head out to set a speed record and learn the landscape before it’s gone.

**“Common ground.” Outdoor Retailer Magazine** (June 2019). ****The biggest public lands bill of the past decade passed with bipartisan support in an age of toxic politics. I detail how it happened.