My reporting has been awarded grants and fellowships by: Journalismfund Europe; Alicia Patterson Foundation; McGraw Center for Business Journalism; National Press Foundation; Institute for Natural Resources and Journalism, and time at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and Tin House Writing Conference. I also served as a Guild Hall Artist-in-Residence from 2022 - 2024, working with Bridgehampton Union Free School District on a narrative-writing workshop focusing on nature, and a Burroughs Wellcome fellow for Science Writing at Boston University in 2023.

I have lived in the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, reporting across fifteen countries including the United States, Lebanon, Japan, Indonesia, Jordan, Egypt and the Dominican Republic. I can speak conversational Arabic and Spanish, and limited Chinese and Italian. My story on LGBTQ+ rights in Lebanon was honored with an LA Press Club award. My travel writing in El Salvador was honored with a silver Lowell Thomas in 2019. In 2015, I was the founding Editor-in-Chief of StepFeed in the Middle East.

I started my media career as a publicist for Forbes Magazine working in New York City for five years. Pitching news stories to television, radio and print, I managed the publicity for lists like the Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Billionaires and Forbes 400, and helped to manage event outreach around marquee conferences.

I am a certified ocean lifeguard, scuba diver and lifelong surfer.

I am an ocean journalist. An 11th Hour Racing ocean ambassador and part of the Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network (23-24), my reporting focuses on fisheries, aquaculture and climate. My writing appears in the New York Times, the Guardian, Outside Magazine, and Travel & Leisure, among others. In 2025, my investigation for WIRED Magazine on ocean carbon removal was given a New York Press Club award. In 2024, I investigated the American seaweed industry for Civil Eats, which garnered honorable mentions from SABEW and ASJA. Other topics I have covered include Long Island’s sewage crisis, Indigenous fishing rights in the North East, the environmental spark of Lebanon’s 2019 revolution and New York farmers fighting for food security during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2022-2023, I was awarded a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan where I retrained in ocean and climate science at the graduate level.

For four years, I was the host of television program "South Fork Sea Farmers" on LTV-EH. Interviewing commercial fishers, marine scientists, Indigenous stewards, chefs and environmental advocates, I programmed and booked guests for each hour-long episode.

Additionally, I moderate panels at conferences globally, including the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France in 2025 and Carbon Forward in Singapore in 2026.

In 2015, I created a ten minute spot for Radio Beirut’s “Beirut Banter.”