About
I’m a writer. I tell stories—especially about maternal health—that draw on history, data, cultural criticism, and reporting.
My critically-acclaimed book Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section was named a great book of 2024 by the Times-Herald Union, a Winter 2025 Jewish Women’s Archive Book Club Pick, and a best book on work, family, and gender equity by the Better Life Lab.
My reporting on maternal and public health has appeared in AARP, Boston Globe, the Guardian, the 19th, the Times-Union, and Women’s Health, among others. I also write the Substack Blind Spots, a newsletter about forces that shape our lives—and that take place just out of public view.
I’m also a researcher, with a PhD from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. In that capacity, I’ve examined how sexual harassment shapes photojournalists’ careers, how the male-dominated nature of photojournalism misses important stories, the ways that attitudes about and policies toward photography shape the photographs that get taken and distributed, and what, as a result, doesn’t get pictured.
And I work as an op-ed editor at the Scholars Strategy Network, where I work with academics to bring their work—and stories—to the public conversation.
I hold a PhD in mass communications from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, an MFA in creative writing from NYU, and a BA in history and English from Cornell University.
