I’m a writer and journalist who reports and produces for Arts Access, a journalism partnership between KERA and The Dallas Morning News. I cover the intersection of money, labor and the economy with arts and culture. 

I also enjoy writing about food pathways, whether I’m looking into a nonprofit trying to grow the number of Black farmers in Texas, labor shortages at the state fair or how a local boba shop used crowdfunding to launch their business. 

Previously, I freelanced as a modern arts reporter at Houstonia Magazine and a features reporter at the Houston Chronicle. After graduating from Rice University, I worked as a news fellow covering politics and breaking news at CNBC. 

My work has been published by APM’s Marketplace, NPR’s Weekend Edition, cnbc.com, Yahoo! Finance, The Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, and Houstonia Magazine. I was a part of Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices program in 2021 and was a Poynter-Koch Fellow in 2023-2024. For my innovation project, I tabled at community events and started conversations with people about deep fakes, misinformation and sensationalism.

My reporting on Asian American communities won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and Texas Broadcast News Award. I also reported on Dallas County’s weatherization assistance program for Season 2 of KUT’s award-winning podcast The Disconnect that looks into Texas’ catastrophic 2021 blackout.