Bio

When I was eight years old, my mother bought me a Mead spiral-bound notebook. I filled that book, and many more after that, with my observations and thoughts. After an ill-fated few semesters attempting to be pre-med at Berkeley, I realized that I’ve always loved words and stories and that I would find a way to make a career out of them.

Places I have worked: restaurants, TV newsrooms, ski resorts. Ask me about it sometime.

My food and culture reporting has been featured on NPR, Public Radio International, and NBC. I also write literary essays, which have been published by magazines such as Tin House, Catapult, and The Seventh Wave. I am an alumna of the VONA and Tin House writing workshops, and my essays have been included in the anthologies Nonwhite and Woman:131 Micro Essays on Being in the World (Woodhall Press), Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Wordand Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Utterly Heartbreaking Art of Parenting (both by City Works Press).

Currently, I work as the Communications and Engagement Director at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Previously, I have been the News & Politics Editor for BlogHer.com, managing daily first-person content from women writers of a diversity of racial, political, and cultural backgrounds. After graduating from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in Rhetoric and then training at the Stanford Mass Media Institute, I worked for five years as a broadcast journalist for several network affiliate TV stations.