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Discovering Cuba, An Island of Music
My favorite features:
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Is Brazil's Underdog Era Coming to an End?, The New Yorker, 2025
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This Family's Home Has Stood for a Century -- In Four Different Countries, The New York Times, 2025
(Selected as the New York Times' "Great Read" for the week) -
Discovering Cuba, an Island of Music, The New York Times, 2019
(4,000 words, recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award for Multimedia Journalism from the Society of Travel Journalists) -
These Brazilians Traveled 18 Hours on a Riverboat to Vote. I Went With Them. Pacific Standard, 2018
(4,000 words, selected for inclusion in the Best American Travel Writing anthology) -
The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else, Bloomberg Businessweek, 2017
(4,700 words, cover story)
More:
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Undocumented, vulnerable, scared: the women who pick your food for $3 an hour, The Guardian, 2019
(3,400 words, reporting supported by the Howard G. Buffet Fund for Women Journalists) -
Rwandan Women Paddle Into the Male World of Fishing, The New York Times, 2018
(2,200 words, page A1, selected for NYT's Gender Letter) -
Women Move From Samba’s Sidelines to the Center of the Circle, The New York Times, 2018
(2,100 words, selected for NYT's The Week in Good News newsletter) -
Meet New Orleans’s All-Female Biker Club, The New York Times, 2018
(2,200 words, Editors' Pick, selected for NYT's Gender Letter) -
These Women Were Told Not to Play Soccer. Instead They Formed a Team., The New York Times, 2018
(2,000 words, Editors' Pick, selected for NYT's The Week in Good News newsletter) -
'Everyone is Beautiful During Eid', The New York Times, 2018
(1,800 words) -
They Told the Women in Bahia They Couldn’t Drum. Try Telling That to Banda Didá., The New York Times, 2018
(1,350 words) -
The End of American Prison Visits, The Guardian, 2017
(2,200 words, 80K shares) -
The Freshest Astros Haircuts in Houston, The New York Times, 2017
(1,300 words) -
Transgender Brazilians Embrace Hit Soap Opera: ‘Now You Can See Us’, The New York Times, 2017
(1,400 words, Sunday Times feature) -
Climate Change Will Likely Wreck Their Livelihoods – But They Still Don't Buy the Science, The Guardian, 2017 (3,400 words, 10.6K shares)
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In Brazil, Political Rivals Face a Common Threat: A Rising Judiciary, The New York Times, 2017
(1,400 words, published on the front page)
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The Golden Brothers: A Visit with Jasper Hill's Andy and Mateo Kehler, Cheese Connoisseur Magazine, 2017
(2,100 words, cover story) -
The Battle for Motivation, Korn Ferry Briefings, 2016
(2,600 words, cover story) -
The Fight against the Growing Dehumanization of Women in Brazil, Jezebel, 2016
(3,000 words) -
Trailer Park Nation, Ozy, 2015
(1,800 words, picked up by PBS)