Selected Work

Audio

The Daily (The New York Times)

• The Crackdown on Student Protesters

• A Reporter’s Journey into Gaza

• The Year of Taylor Swift

• Kids Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate

• Lives, Livelihoods, and the High Cost of Heat

• Can Barbie Be Rebranded as a Feminist Icon?

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Code Switch (NPR)

• Race & Comedy Series Part 1 and Part 2

• Wherefore art thou, N-word?

• The rise and fall of 'America's Dad'

• Imagining A World Without Prisons Or Police

• Live from Philly: A Code Switch Jawn

Life Kit (NPR)

• When to let go of old family traditions — and create new ones

• The 5-minute daily playtime ritual that can get your kids to listen better

• Busting 5 common myths about water and hydration

• How to make a good impression in your first week of work, according to a new NPR host

All Things Considered (NPR)

• Aid Official Warns Of A Bleak Situation In Afghanistan As Winter Approaches

• Demi Adejuyigbe, The Man Behind Those Annual 'Sept. 21' Videos Has Made His Last Masterpiece

• Texas School Administrators Go Door To Door To Bring Students Back To The Classroom

• A Single California Fire Killed 10% Of The World's Giant Sequoia Trees

• Engaging With Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month: A Reading List

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Features

• Harsh Light, Desert Companion

  • Criticized for racial inequities and workplace issues, the Neon Museum finds itself in an unaccustomed glare

• Heaven or Las Vegas, Desert Companion

  • An essay on celebrating Ramadan while growing up in Las Vegas

• Waking the Giant: The Strip Reopens, Desert Companion

  • Two dispatches on reopening day on the Las Vegas Strip, amid the COVID-19 pandemic​ (Secret Pizza and New York-New York)

• Back to the Desert and Neon Lights: The Canyon, The Believer

  • A dispatch on The Canyon, the Friday night event of The Believer Festival which showcased writers and artists in Red Rock Canyon

• Hawk Show, Desert Companion

  • Profile of Civon Gewelber, a lifelong falconer who employs birds of prey in her work on the Las Vegas The Strip

Interviews

• Cooking up food and identity in Pailin Chongchitnant's "Hot Thai Kitchen" NPR

• Author Leah Johnson On Being Young, Black, Queer And In Love,

  NPR

  • An interview with young adult author Leah Johnson on writing stories that center queer, Black protagonists and explore all kinds of love, from platonic, to romantic, to familial 

• An Interview with Ahmed Naji, The Believer

  • Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji and I talk about translation, distracting prison guards, and reading and writing as strategies for survival

• An Interview with Ben Ehrenreich, The Believer

  • I speak with author Ben Ehrenreich about the desert, writing as liberation, and his new book, "Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time"