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I’m a freelance journalist based in Reno, Nevada, a city on the brink of high desert and snowy mountains. I started reporting in a small-town newsroom with a daily deadline at 3 p.m. sharp and an old school copy editor who always had a red pen at hand. That was more than 15 years ago, and I haven't stopped reporting since.

My work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tahoe Quarterly, Outside and more. I was managing editor at Powder, the Skier’s Magazine, when the publication was a finalist for three National Magazine Awards. I covered Lake Tahoe for SFGATE when the pandemic, wildfires and an influx of transplants from San Francisco overwhelmed the region. And recently, I reported on the 2022 Midterm Elections from Reno, for The New York Times.

I write about a lot of things — politics and the environment, outdoor recreation and wildlife, the housing crisis and tourism — but the place I keep coming back to is a question of what it means to live in the West right now.

I was born and raised in Lake Tahoe. Skiing is one of my joys in life, alongside baking and gardening. Oh, and I am also, proudly, the owner of a corgi named Squirrel.