Select Features & Essays
The Car Mechanic Trade is Dying. Who Will Fix Our High-Tech Cars? | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 8.9.19
Children Keep Dying in Hot Cars as Florida Fails to Act | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 8.5.19
Florida Puerto Ricans Push for Change Beyond Rossello | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 7.25.19
She Came to Florida to Beat Drug Addiction, But Died Instead | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 6.21.19
A Place I Could Call My Own | The New York Times | 10.7.18
The Complex Disadvantages Underlying New York City's Specialized High Schools | The New Yorker | 6.16.18
Widening the Horror Genre: A Conversation with Victor Lavalle | The Miami Rail | 5.1.18
Here for the Ride: Andre D. Wagner's Subway Photographs | The Paris Review | 2.22.18
PageSlayers Lays Down Literary Roots in Opa-Locka | The Miami Rail | 12.1.17
The Undaunted Efforts to Bring Supplies to Loved Ones in Puerto Rico | The New Yorker | 10.8.17
"Nothing Looks Like It Was Before": Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico | The New Yorker | 9.21.17
Getting Through Hurricane Irma, With Gratitude and Relief | The New Yorker | 9.13.17
Can Florida's First Needle Exchange Help Curb HIV? | The Atlantic | 2.27.17
Life in the Black Miami of "Moonlight" | The New Yorker | 12.11.16
Desus And Mero Won Twitter. Now Their Bronx-Raised Genius Is Taking Over TV. | The Fader | 11.15.16
The Bronx Loses Its Only Bookstore | The New Yorker | 10.31.16
These Struggling Twentysomethings Have Never Even Heard of Millennials | Fusion | 2.10.16
When We Label Some Children 'Gifted," What Does That Say To The Others? | TNTP Blog | 2.11.16
Rinse, Spin, Read to Kids: A Mashup of Laundromat and Library | NPR | 10.27.15
Weekends At A Bronx Beach That Feature Backboards Instead Of Surfboards | The New York Times | 6.30.14
For Fans In Bronx Jennifer Lopez's Homecoming Was Overdue | The New York Times | 6.6.14
Hip-Hop Finds An Artist to Believe In | The New York Times | 8.31.11
Riding A Bus From the Bronx to New Cultural Horizons | The New York Times | 8.2.11
In A Cult Bronx Film, Hints of Hip-Hop | The New York Times | 11.19.10
A Museum Quest Spins On and On | The New York Times | 9.3.10
The Car Mechanic Trade is Dying. Who Will Fix Our High-Tech Cars? | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 8.9.19
Children Keep Dying in Hot Cars as Florida Fails to Act | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 8.5.19
Florida Puerto Ricans Push for Change Beyond Rossello | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 7.25.19
She Came to Florida to Beat Drug Addiction, But Died Instead | The South Florida Sun Sentinel | 6.21.19
A Place I Could Call My Own | The New York Times | 10.7.18
The Complex Disadvantages Underlying New York City's Specialized High Schools | The New Yorker | 6.16.18
Widening the Horror Genre: A Conversation with Victor Lavalle | The Miami Rail | 5.1.18
Here for the Ride: Andre D. Wagner's Subway Photographs | The Paris Review | 2.22.18
PageSlayers Lays Down Literary Roots in Opa-Locka | The Miami Rail | 12.1.17
The Undaunted Efforts to Bring Supplies to Loved Ones in Puerto Rico | The New Yorker | 10.8.17
"Nothing Looks Like It Was Before": Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico | The New Yorker | 9.21.17
Getting Through Hurricane Irma, With Gratitude and Relief | The New Yorker | 9.13.17
Can Florida's First Needle Exchange Help Curb HIV? | The Atlantic | 2.27.17
Life in the Black Miami of "Moonlight" | The New Yorker | 12.11.16
Desus And Mero Won Twitter. Now Their Bronx-Raised Genius Is Taking Over TV. | The Fader | 11.15.16
The Bronx Loses Its Only Bookstore | The New Yorker | 10.31.16
These Struggling Twentysomethings Have Never Even Heard of Millennials | Fusion | 2.10.16
When We Label Some Children 'Gifted," What Does That Say To The Others? | TNTP Blog | 2.11.16
Rinse, Spin, Read to Kids: A Mashup of Laundromat and Library | NPR | 10.27.15
Weekends At A Bronx Beach That Feature Backboards Instead Of Surfboards | The New York Times | 6.30.14
For Fans In Bronx Jennifer Lopez's Homecoming Was Overdue | The New York Times | 6.6.14
Hip-Hop Finds An Artist to Believe In | The New York Times | 8.31.11
Riding A Bus From the Bronx to New Cultural Horizons | The New York Times | 8.2.11
In A Cult Bronx Film, Hints of Hip-Hop | The New York Times | 11.19.10
A Museum Quest Spins On and On | The New York Times | 9.3.10