About Me
I am a student at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law interested in disability rights and environmental law.
For a decade, I’ve worked as a writer and editor interested in the intersections of wildlife and humanity. My writing can be found in Hakai Magazine, The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Real Life, Men's Health, and other outlets.
I earned a B.A. in English from Santa Clara University, where I worked as a research assistant and co-edited a scholarly edition of The Female American (Broadview Press).
After Santa Clara, I earned an M.A. in Cultural Reporting & Criticism at NYU. I've worked as a writer and editor, and at the Endicott College Writing Center. I volunteer with New Hampshire Audubon's New Hampshire Bird Records editorial team and contribute to The Joy of Birding. I continue to edit scholarly articles and book-length projects.
Physical work has provided me with valuable perspective—particularly digging postholes. I've done trail maintenance, managed seasonal conservation employees, and worked briefly as a farmhand.
In 2022, I was in a collision with a tractor-trailer and sustained a diffuse axonal injury (traumatic brain injury). The resulting disability is chronic and often invisible. That experience reshaped my life—and it's why I'm pursuing a legal career.
Currently, I write regularly at Rock & Hawk and am working on a book of my own—about finding meaning in birds, navigating disability, and moving forward with resilience.
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