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Recent Writing

Stranger than Fiction: Three alumni writers channel their lived experiences into acclaimed novels

SIPA News, March 2021

Something in the Air: PhD candidate Sandra Aguilar-Gómez investigates the economic, policy, and environmental-justice implications of Mexico City’s air-quality warnings (PDF)

SIPA Magazine, October 2020

Putting Maternal Mortality in the Spotlight

SIPA News, May 2019

Why Let This Adversity Go To Waste?

SIPA News, February 2019

At National Geographic, it’s Relevance Over Reverence

Columbia Business School Ideas & Insights, April 2018

The Business of Storytelling

Columbia Business School Ideas & Insights, August 2017

Hot Sauce Spices Things up with Social Mission

Columbia Business School Ideas & Insights, March 2017

Diane Arbus in the Adirondacks

Adirondack Life, March/April 2017

Seeing The Extraordinary In The Ordinary: An Interview With Filmmaker Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar

Mobiography, February 2017

Where Business and Art Intersect

Columbia Business School Ideas & Insights, April 2016

Are These Nicotine-Like Insecticides Killing Bees?

Modern Farmer, November 2014

Swarming the Rooftops

Narratively, July 2013

Their Songs Never Cease

PHOTOJOURNALISM-CJS, December 2012

Charting a New Course

The Sixth Borough, Fall 2011

Wider Issues Surrounding the Execution of Troy Davis—and the Death Penalty in America (Interview with Greg Mitchell)

Excerpted September 2011 in The Nation; original interview published Alternet, 2001

Garment District struggles to find a way forward

Neighborhood Beat Box, August 2011

Rooftop farm delivers bounty to Hell’s Kitchen

Neighborhood Beat Box, August 2011

Theater festival spurs business during summer doldrums

Neighborhood Beat Box, August 2011