ABOUT ME

I'm currently a managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, where I oversee our news and politics team. Before that, I helped launch our cities section and served as international news editor, a role in which I helped recruit, edit and manage freelancers based primarily in South America and Africa. My own international reporting has taken me everywhere from Sri Lanka's war-ravaged North to Lesotho's remote mountain villages.

I strive to tell character-driven stories that shed light on social injustice, and particularly enjoy reporting and editing pieces on women's issues and gender equity. I also have a love for fun, quirky feature stories and personal essays. A few years back, an Indianapolis Monthly story I wrote about a veteran with PTSD who tried to kidnap my parents in the 1990s and later became a rapping sensation among elementary students was named “Best Magazine Article of the Year'“ in Indiana.

I've been an Overseas Press Club Fellow and received two fellowships from the International Reporting Project. A journalist for more than a decade, I've covered everything from Indiana's National Guard to online education to riots in South Africa's townships. I’ve written for the Associated Press, The Washingtonian, CityLab, Bitch Media and numerous other news orgs.

I serve as a capstone advisor and instructor of multimedia storytelling in the master’s in journalism program at Georgetown University, where my students know me as a stickler for nutgraphs and story structure.

An Indiana native, I live right outside the nation's capital with my husband, two very small humans and one very large cat. 

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