I’m an urban planner
working on planning and policy issues through journalism, including writing, radio, and film.

Recently, my focus has been on the politics of urban and suburban mobility, including cities’ efforts to create car-optional spaces, and the intersection of transportation policies with public health, labor, housing, and environmental issues. My past work has dealt with gentrification and displacement, particularly in New York City in the 2000s under Michael Bloomberg. In addition to my work in urban planning and policy, I’ve also written about gender and sexual assault at elite U.S. boarding schools.

  • I have over two decades of experience producing print articles, radio, and films. My work focuses mostly on urban planning and policy issues. I have also covered topics in education and the arts.

    I have written about urban planning and policy issues for publications including Current Affairs, HuffPost, Next City, Gotham Gazette, Progressive City, and the Brooklyn Rail. My most recent piece explores the politics of the Strong Towns movement through an investigation of its proposals for fixing U.S. public transit, water infrastructure, and the housing crisis.

    In 2016, I founded Ear to the Pavement, a podcast about urban planning and politics. I research, produce, and host the show in association with Progressive City, a magazine of the Planner’s Network. The podcast has featured many important thinkers of the day, including Mindy Fullilove, Bill Fletcher Jr., Dan Georgakas, Yasmin Nair, Nathan J. Robinson, and Adolph Reed Jr. Previously, I covered arts and culture as a producer at WNYC Radio in New York City, and as a freelance radio reporter.

    I brought urban planning, organizing, and filmmaking together in My Brooklyn (2012), a feature documentary I conceived, researched, and produced (with director Kelly Anderson). My Brooklyn traces New York City’s attempts to remake Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall, a thriving and historically black commercial district. Prior to My Brooklyn, I researched and co-produced Someplace Like Home (2008) with Brooklyn-based Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE).