Select Samples of Published Work

Highlights

• Students Deserve Better Than Active-Shooter Drills for The Nation

• Why You Should Take Time to Mourn During Career Transitions for New York Times

• How a Community Protected an Undocumented Mother from ICE for O, The Oprah Magazine

• What Life for One Weinstein Accuser Is Like After She Went Public for VICE

• This Group of Women Ended ICE Detention in Atlanta for VICE

Politics & Policy

• 1 in 4 Circuit Court Judges Have Been Appointed By Trump. Here’s Why That Matters For Your Rights for COURIER

• This Woman Brought Her Newborn to Work Because the U.S. Doesn’t Offer Guaranteed Paid Leave for COURIER

• Could 2019 be the year South Carolina lawmakers approve medical marijuana? for Charleston City Paper

• New Trump Policies Could Leave Campus Assault Victims with Little Recourse for VICE

Women’s Health

• Women in Labor Can’t Hold In Their Babies. Nurses Tell Them To Do It Anyway for VICE

• One and Done: When Women Are Too Traumatized by Birth to Have More Kids for Healthline

• How Better Postpartum Care Could Help U.S. Mothers Thrive for Rewire.News

Abuse

• How Much Protection Do Protective Orders Provide? for VICE

• Sleep Deprivation Can Be a Weapon in the Hands of an Abusive Partner for VICE

• What It Feels Like to Learn Your Rapist Is Dead for VICE

Reproductive Rights

• When He Throws Your Birth Control Pills in the Garbage for VICE

• At a Georgia Clinic, Abortion Bill Causes Uncertainty and Fear for VICE

• Why Pharmacies Should Be Allowed to Dispense the Abortion Pill for Rewire.News

Race & Justice

• Breonna Taylor Would Have Been 27 Today. This Woman Is Making Sure She Isn’t Forgotten for COURIER

• Black Mothers Share the Devastating Impact of Racism in Maternal Health Care for VICE

• Model Legislation Aims To Help Cities Bring People Of Color Into Marijuana Industry for Marijuana Moment

• ‘The Media Have Neglected Us’: Black Parkland Survivors Speak Out for VICE

Personal Essays

• My Korean Mother Doesn’t Understand My American Success for ZORA

• Korean Beauty Standards, My Mom, and Me for ZORA

• In Praise of Gimbap — Which Is Not Korean Sushi for Heated

• The Night My Doorbell Camera Captured a Shooting for OneZero

• How Formula Helped Me Find Myself Again for What’s Up Moms

• ‘What are you?’ On the tactless question that's followed me my whole life for Nashville Scene

Check out more of my writing at my various authors pages linked below.