Reporting
Here’s a few samples of my reporting in audio 🎧, digital 💻, and print 📖

🎧 An LA art exhibition challenges visitors to rethink their perceptions of fire, NPR, 2025

💻 Is it safe to eat my backyard fruit in LA?, LA Public Press, 2025

🎧 Angel Island, and Why the U.S. Has Historically Used Islands to Isolate, Process, and Deter Immigrants, 70 Million, 2024

🎧 1931 film Drácula gets its first film score, just in time for Halloween, NPR, 2024

🎧 Open secret: Some international students in the US are going hungry, The World, 2024

🎧 Germans prep for pot legalization, NPR, 2023

🎧 Legacies of the Chicano Moratorium, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2020

🎧 The Latin Explosion of 1999, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2021

🎧 You Asked for Real Raises, Free Shipping, and a Special Delivery, Planet Money, NPR, 2021

🎧 Mayes Rubeo, “Jojo Rabbit” Costume Designer, The Frame, KPCC/LAist, 2020

🎧 Dorian Wood Remembers Chavela Vargas, The Frame, KPCC, 2019
🎧 Tuesday Night Cafe, The Frame, KPCC, 2019
🎧 Homebodies, KCRW’s 24-Hour Radio Race, 2019
📖 We Were Angry and Wanted an Outlet: Hijas de la Paz, make/shift, 2017
Interviews
These are my on-air and text-based interviews and roundtables.
🎧 A Guidebook to Smell, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2022
🎧 The Game Has Changed for D&D and “A League of Their Own,” It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2022
📖 Love on the Front Lines: A Roundtable with Co-Editors of Revolutionary Mothering, make/shift, 2016
📖 Deer, Unleashed: An Interview with Bamby Salcedo, make/shift, 2015
📖 Girls Stepping into Their Power: An Interview with the Co-Founder of Radical Monarchs, make/shift, 2015
Selected Podcast Producing
My work on these episodes included research, writing, cutting tape, sound design, and scoring.
🎧 How do our brains perceive our future selves? One psychologist wanted to know, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2023
🎧 How to turn everyday moves (even typing!) into dance, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2023
🎧 How the first LGBTQ+ video game was given a second life, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2023
🎧 Building a library of unread manuscripts, locked away until 2114, TED Radio Hour, NPR, 2022
🎧 Producer Gloria Calderón Kellett on making and sustaining Latinx TV, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2022
🎧 Michaela Coel Is A ‘Misfit.’ She Wants To Help Other Misfits, Too, It’s Been a Minute, NPR, 2021
The rest of my NPR work can be found here.
Reviews
💻 Review of Hood Criatura, by fei hernandez, NPR, 2020
💻 Review of An Incomplete List of Names, by Michael Torres, NPR, 2020
📖 Review of Bodymap and Dirty River, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, make/shift, 2016
📖 Review of Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories, by Hilary Klein, make/shift, 2015
Essays
📖 How to Grow Old, Huizache, 2016
Theater
🎭 Las Amigas (short play), Chicanas, Cholas, y Chisme Festival, Los Angeles, 2014