Journalism

Chaos Reigns: Brand Loyalty and the Underdog Narrative in the Case of #FreeGritty

Artforum cover art, December 2019

“We’re the original city of rebels and revolutionaries, and I think that this initially ghastly, appalling creature strolled in at a time when we least expected it, but probably most needed it.” - Helen Gym, Philadelphia City Councilwoman, 2018

Presented at Western Washington University’s Scholars’ Week 2021

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Indigenous Knowledge and Biopiracy: The Need for a New System of International Intellectual Property Rights Law

Published in Occam’s Razor, Volume 11, Spring 2021

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The Far Right of the Upper Left

Whatcom County’s violent white supremacist past and present, and the prospect of deradicalization

Published in Klipsun Magazine, Volume 51, Fall 2020

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Playing it by Ear

After the permanent closure of the Firefly Lounge, musicians, venue staff and concertgoers imagine a live music scene post-COVID-19

Published in Klipsun Magazine, Volume 51, Fall 2020

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Bellingham mask sewing effort continues with Molly’s Sewing Machine Service

A county councilmember, a sewing machine repairwoman, and a nonprofit working together to make sewing accessible

Published on the Western Front Online, May 29, 2020

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