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I am a freelance writer, photographer, and producer based in New York City. I am currently studying international reporting at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. I cover the neighborhood of Canarsie, way out in end-of-the-line Brooklyn by Jamaica Bay. It's a part of the city that was once predominantly Jewish and Italian but has attracted a significant Caribbean population in recent years.
I grew up in south coast Massachusetts and graduated from in 2007 with a degree in Animal Behavior and Creative Writing. For awhile, I had aspirations of being the next Crocodile Hunter. While trekking around the Tanzanian rainforest in 2006 studying a troop of black and white colobus monkeys, however, I realized I needed something with more scope. Over the next couple of years, I traveled around the west, working as a freelance writer, a forestry researcher, and a wilderness therapy field guide.
I am conversant in Swahili, and I aim to report in East and Central Africa. My science background - especially my knowledge of conservation biology and how issues of the environment shape the societies that inhabit it - often informs my work.