Poetry
This Vast Artifice, Emergence Magazine, 2025
I am working on a poetry collection about urban ecology and intimacy and these are the first poems to be published. Another poem is forthcoming from Loam Journal, and a film festival in the Philippines borrowed the title. Zines and framed illustrations of my poems have also been sold at the Frenchmen Art Bazaar in New Orleans by my friend and collaborator Em Koch, and featured in the Leonard Cohen cabin at The Fork Inn in Tennessee. I have read poems at readings and festivals in New York.
Strategy
Carbon Management Strategy, U.S. Department of Energy, 2024
While a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, I did a 6-month externship as a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy, working with Noah Deich to lead an effort to coordinate the deployment of funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in service of a coherent national strategy for developing safe and effective carbon removal technology.
Academic Writing
Narrating Apocalypse: Cape Town’s ‘Day Zero’ and the Politics of Climate Change Attribution, 2020
Guided by my thesis advisor, Sheila Jasanoff, I did two months of fieldwork in Cape Town studying the competing narratives about whether their 2018 water crisis was caused by climate change. I argued that all ‘climate disasters’ will always have additional proximate causes such as poor resource management, the politics of which must not be obscured by climate change attribution science. It was awarded summa cum laude and the STS Undergraduate Essay Prize.
Reporting
In Kenya, a Maasai community burned by ecotourism gives it another shot, Mongabay, 2022
While living in Nairobi in 2021 and working on What We Can’t Burn, I freelanced as a journalist. My favorite story I wrote during that time was this investigative piece about a safari lodge that was mysteriously burned down by a member of the Maasai community whose land it was on. I did two dozen interviews with Maasai leaders and lodge employees to understand how what had started as an innovative effort to subvert the neocolonial dynamics of safari tourism went awry, and what lessons the community took away from it.
From plague to promise: How insects can revolutionize our food system, Grist, 2021
East Africa wants to be the continent’s maggot protein hub, Quartz, 2022
Coastal Cambridge, Harvard Political Review, 2018
Essays
Overkill, Tusculum Review, 2023
Starlink, Harvard Magazine, 2020
Rainbow Fish Reminders, The Crimson, 2018
Op-Eds
As wildfires burn, assigning blame is complicated, Undark, 2020
ESG is broken but we can’t afford to scrap it, Quartz, 2022
Yes, there’s still bitter division over climate policy. That’s progress, folks, Grist, 2020
Harvard’s Investment in Land and Natural Resources, The Crimson, 2019