I am a journalist who covers business, often through longform investigations. Most of my work explores the global food system, but I also write about technology, finance, health, and politics. Some pieces have taken me years to report, like a dispatch from Russia tracing how McDonald’s became a pawn in the Kremlin’s proxy war on America.
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Currently, I’m a contributing writer for Fast Company. I also write for Businessweek. Other outlets include Rolling Stone, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Dallas Morning News, and Slate. I spent much of the 2010s at New York magazine, where I wrote the print issue’s now-retired Topic Page and was part of teams that won National Magazine and James Beard awards. I’m a former McGraw Business Journalism Fellow and U.C. Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Fellow, and have received grants from Type Media Center and the Food & Environment Reporting Network.

Twice my work has been anthologized in the Best American writing series. I have been a guest on Marketplace, different WNYC shows, and various podcasts. The 2025 docuseries The Price of Milk is based partly on my dairy industry reporting.

Over two decades, I am lucky to have reported in ten countries on four continents — from Moscow to Tokyo and Amazonian huts, Nicaragua’s notorious El Modelo prison, and the agave-growing plains of rural Mexico.

Born in Texas, I now live in New York. I hold a master’s degree in religious studies and journalism from NYU.