Covering policy & business for the New York Times in Washington
I’m a lawyer reporting on antitrust, banks, crypto, ESG, fraud, lobbying, markets and more for DealBook. Previously, I wrote about law, politics, science and tech at Quartz, blogged for FindLaw and was an associate producer at abcnews.com. My first newsroom job was at The Jerusalem Report in Israel. I studied journalism at Boston University.
After serving in the Peace Corps in Senegal, I worked as a French interpreter for asylum seekers, studied religion at Columbia University and attended CUNY law school. Grand jury duty kindled my interest in crime and I became a public defender in Palm Beach County. There, I met indigent clients in a jail overlooking a multimillion dollar Trump golf course and argued in a gorgeous courthouse by the sea. It was an illuminating, often shocking, job. But my most voyeuristic gig was at Google in Silicon Valley, sifting through privileged info as a document review attorney.
Working in the law gave me a strong grasp of systems, which drove me back to journalism. Ever since, I’ve been devoted to writing stories informed by this unique perspective.
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