I'm a journalist based in the Bay Area, California. I'm currently an editor at the Guardian US, where I cover the west coast, communities of color, food, environment and gun violence. I've edited series on the Maui wildfires, food waste, ultra-processed foods, and co-created the new column, "My DIY climate hack," which profiles ordinary people's solutions to the climate crisis. In my own writing, I've extensively covered California's reparations movement.

Before the Guardian, I was deputy editor of NBC Asian America, where I covered in-depth the rise of anti-Asian racism amid the pandemic and edited stories on Asian American politics, pop culture, literature, religion and health. As a freelance reporter, I wrote for the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, the Orange County Register, Religion News Service, Sojourners and other publications.

I also taught English at San Quentin State Prison through Mount Tamalpais College.

I'm a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Divinity School, where I studied everything from Japanese Buddhism to Biblical Hebrew, classical Arabic, Black liberation theology and Malcolm X. I also spent a year living in Sri Lanka as a Fulbright scholar.

I'm always looking for new opportunities, so get in touch if you'd like to collaborate.