About Me

I grew up in the swamp. I found a home on Capitol Hill in a city often vilified for its partisan rhetoric. Rarely do pundits speak of the people on complete opposite ends of the aisle sitting in the same pew at church, or the coaches putting in long hours for their political opponent’s kids, or the neighbors who argued on the Senate floor just hours before playing catch in the alley. This community showed me what real unity is amid division and strife. It made me want to find truth and unity where it seems like there isn’t any.

I found journalism in the same way most kids do: being bad at math. It was the perfect intersection between my love of writing and politics. I began to idolize journalists like Christiane Amanpour and writers like Sylvia Plath who redefined what writing looked like; poets like Emily Dickinson who demonstrated how to say so much with so little; writers like Virginia Woolf and Joan Didion who gave witness to the female experience in ways I’d never read before. These writers informed my wry tone and nuanced analysis. They made me want to seek the truth, meet new people, and explore the world around us; to see beyond ourselves, look across the pond, and see how our world intersects. This fueled the desire to be a foreign correspondent. I want to be a part of the legacy that so many women created before me; redefining what it means to be a journalist and how we can find unity when it seems hopeless.