I am a journalist who covers business, mostly through investigations into our global food system, the worlds of finance and tech, the health industry, and politics.

I write a monthly feature for Fast Company, and contribute to Businessweek. Before that, I was at New York magazine where I wrote the Topic Page, won National Magazine and James Beard awards, and covered the 2012 presidential election. Other outlets I’ve reported for include Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, and Wired.

My assignments have taken me to the remote Amazon, Tokyo, Galician fishing waters, Nicaragua’s notorious El Modelo prison, and Moscow where I chronicled the proxy war the Kremlin was waging against Russian McDonald’s to rattle America.

I was a U.C. Berkeley–11th Hour Food and Farming Fellow in 2018 and a McGraw Business Journalism Fellow in 2020. I have received reporting grants from Type Media Center and the Food & Environment Reporting Network. The 2025 TV docuseries The Price of Milk is partly based on my years of dairy industry reporting, and my work is anthologized twice in the Best American Series (2013, 2017).

Texan-born, I received a master’s degree in religious studies and journalism from NYU, and today work out of New York.
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