I'm a writer and foreign correspondent specializing in East Africa and Africa’s Great Lakes region.
My work, including longform stories, investigative features, travel dispatches, and profiles, has been published by National Geographic, The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, and many other outlets around the globe.
In a dozen years as a journalist, I've written about the ongoing fight to save Africa's oldest national park, investigated a first-of-its kind project to generate power from a Rwandan lake, chronicled the hidden costs of fame and wealth among elite Kenyan runners, profiled Africa’s last absolute monarch, and explored the rise of the African megacity though an in-depth look at Tanzania’s largest city Dar es Salaam. I’m a regulator contributor to Technology Review’s annual 35 Innovators Under 35, which honors some of the world’s brightest young thinkers. I also teach a course on global journalism at Tufts University and work as a writer, editor, and analyst for a variety of private and non-governmental clients.
I’m a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, hold a B.A. from Tufts, and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC. I’m grateful for the support I’ve received from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, and the former Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards, where I was a one-time winner and two-time finalist.