I'm an essayist, journalist, and fledgling labor organizer who writes about music, pop culture, and the working populace. My journalism has appeared online in publications including Cosmopolitan, PEOPLE, HelloGiggles, and elsewhere. I was previously a staff writer at Bustle Digital Group’s Elite Daily, reporting on music and celebrity news.

Before concentrating my writing practice on the relationship between music and capitalism, I wrote about youth culture, social issues, media, and identity through an intersectional feminist lens: a seven-year-long pursuit that primed me to ground my recent investigations in Marxist philosophy and leftist thought. My newsletter, Unsolicited, is a Marxist-feminist plunge into pop-music-adjacent current events, history, and social phenomena.

I have a B.A. in Journalism and Creative Editing and Publishing from San Diego State University. Living on Tongva land (so-called Los Angeles), I work in the private sector world by day (see:🔗 the political economy made me do it 🔗) and write for change by night. 

Recently I self-published my debut nonfiction essay collection, Vibe Cheque: Contemplations on Class, Creativity & Powert in Music (This Is Why All Music Lovers Should Be Anti-Capitalists). 

A book in four parts, Vibe Cheque connects the dots of labor, class, success, celebrity, and power in ways music laborers and listeners are conditioned not to. Weaving sociological theory, political commentary, and unpretentious confessionalism with original music reporting, cultural criticism, and personal essay, this enterprising series of interrogative writings that collectively serve as a comprehensive primer to the plight of creative laborers during an era in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Right now, all profits to go Doctors Without Borders.