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My writing has been published by the New York Times, NBC News, the Guardian, BuzzFeed News, Gizmodo, Slate, the San Francisco Chronicle, FLUX Hawaiʻi, Honolulu Magazine, and others.
Currently, I am the Digital News Editor at Hawaiʻi Public Radio, where I assign and edit stories, mentor and manage digital news producers, report and write, and help shape the organization’s digital strategy across its website, social media and newsletters. Previously, I spent more than four years covering local news as a digital journalist at Spectrum News Hawaiʻi and six years as an editor at BuzzFeed News.
I have reported on a wide range of issues related to Hawaiʻi and the Pacific region, including the Red Hill fuel leaks, beach erosion, the 2018 false missile alert, multiple volcano eruptions on Hawaiʻi Island, and many hurricanes that have impacted the state. I am especially interested in environmental issues, biodiversity, agriculture, mental health, housing, education, art and culture.
I also previously worked as the Adviser for the student media program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where I mentored young journalists and taught about the responsibility of the press in relation to the University community it serves.
I grew up in Hawaiʻi and started my career as a Society of Professional Journalist Fellow at Honolulu Magazine. I earned a MA in Journalism at Columbia University in New York and a BA in English and Psychology at Oberlin College in Ohio.
In my spare time, I’m a flower farmer at Tantalus Botanicals — a boutique farm and floral company that I started with my husband and our dog on the property where I grew up.