Block

I spent three years working for the Funding and Liquidity team at Square Banking...

ENGINEERING

Roots Studio

Roots Studio works with artists in India and China, digitizes their art and stories and licenses them to global fashion brands...

ENGINEERING

Automating Local Education News

Over the summer of 2019, I worked as a “local news automation fellow” for the Associated Press...

DATA

Residential Evictions and Right To Counsel

Interactive map showing eviction and household financial data per NYC neighborhood.

DATA

Kizzy

At the peak of her limbo career in the ‘80s, Earlyn “Kizzy” Ferguson was known for bending her body under a flaming bar balanced on two bottles of Coca-Cola about 18 inches high...

REPORTING

Educating Tenants on their Right to Counsel

Ciara Ward was doing her laundry in Bedford-Stuyvesant on a recent Sunday afternoon. Ward, who lives around the corner from the laundromat, is fighting an eviction case brought by her landlord...

REPORTING

The Road to 225 Words per Minute

In 2005, after working for 15 years as a court reporter at the Bronx Criminal Court, Oscar Garzon began teaching others the art of documenting what judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses say during court proceedings...

REPORTING

Haunted Garden

A dinosaur comes running around the corner of South 2nd Street, followed by Super Mario and a bespectacled aviator. Soon, two dozen trick-or-treaters have gathered in front of the garden gate...

REPORTING

Shanghai: An Umbrella Story

Three years ago, I had the opportunity to study a semester abroad in Shanghai...

PERSONAL

The White Knight

The white knight looked around the long, unfamiliar hallway and pulled his surcoat straight. Standing in the bright neon lights...

PERSONAL

Spars and Ropes

Uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows, these modest foods color one of my fondest memories: playing traditional Belgian youth movement games with a class of Chinese teenagers in Shanghai...

PERSONAL