About

I'm a journalist at The Verge, where I've worked since 2010, first as the investigations editor and now as a feature writer. I write about artificial intelligence, technology platforms, labor, business, and other topics. I'm drawn to stories that illuminate larger systems that shape our world.

My story about app-based food delivery workers in New York City, done in partnership with New York Magazine, won a Loeb Award for feature writing, a New York Press Club Award, and was a finalist for the James Beard Award for investigative reporting. It was also anthologized in Best American Food Writing. My reporting on the global workforce that produces training data for AI, also published in New York, was selected as a finalist for a National Magazine Award in feature writing and a Loeb Award in explanatory journalism. My investigation into Foxconn's failure to build its heavily subsidized factory in Wisconsin received a Deadline Club Society of Professional Journalists Award and a Sidney Award.

I've also written about nomadic Amazon merchants, exterminators in rat-free Alberta, and the growing market for sand to replenish eroding beaches. In 2024, I wrote about the secretive, aging, and surprisingly small fleet of ships that repairs submarine internet cables when they break.

Prior to joining The Verge, I wrote for MIT Technology Review, Newsweek, and other publications. For Pacific Standard, I followed migratory beekeepers pollinating California's almond crop to write about how the industry had responded to colony collapse disorder. The story received the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers.