She holds a masters from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her past work experience includes The Nation magazine and the United Nations bureaus of a few newswires. Her writing has appeared in Clamor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Press, The Orlando Sentinel and other newspapers, magazines and newswires. She has worked with NGOs and grassroots organizations in Peru, Venezuela, Ghana and New York. A California native, she spends her spare time in Brooklyn, N.Y. cursing at the winter and looking for decent Mexican food.