Selected Writing

Music

While attending Syracuse University, I explored the music scene both on and off campus, reviewing concerts and profiling artists for The Daily Orange. Now, I conduct new music searches on a daily basis and forecast music industry trends for my TikTok, Spotify playlists, and various blogs.

“Charlie Burg wrapped up a concert at The Westcott Theater, a stop on his first headlining tour, and played a student-run concert venue called the Mudpit. Though the lineup had yet to go public, Burg already knew he’d be on the Governors Ball stage come June.”

‘Still the Same’: Charlie Burg rises out of SU house show scene to play Governors Ball, interview for The Daily Orange, Jan. 2023

Noah Kahan delivers one-of-a-kind performance for 1st time in Syracuse, interview and concert review for The Daily Orange, Nov. 2021

You’re not the main character, you’re just awful, post for "Shuffled by Sarah," March 2023

News and Magazine Features

As a CNBC intern and assistant news reporter at The Daily Orange, I learned how to write and report sensitively and smartly on stories of interest to diverse communities and track down necessary sources to make a story happen.

“As Jon Page meandered the empty Three Lives bar a few hours before open, he recounted his high school years growing up in Syracuse, where he never felt welcome in any crowd. Or, as he put it, he ‘never had a lunch table.’ 

‘Now this,’ he said, gesturing around his video game themed establishment. ‘This is my lunch table.’”

Game On at Three Lives, bar profile for Baked, Spring 2023

“When the Onondaga Nation farm needed an evaporator for its first year of maple syrup production, the farm supervisor reached out to a friend from the Seneca Nation who had one no longer in use. He offered to trade the machine in exchange for 10 buffalo.

The chief who runs the Onondaga Nation buffalo farm supported the trade, but negotiated down to seven buffalo.”

Local Maple, Everything you need to know about the maple syrup industry in New York, feature for Baked, Fall 2022

Tearing down highways to revitalize communities—and create jobs, enterprise piece for The American Prospect, March 2022

Essays

My favorite essays are ones that draw connections between pop culture moments and the larger state of our world. I try to identify fresh angles and generate ideas for conversation-driven reflections and personal anecdotes.

“Six months ago, you’ll think, you were shaking hands with editors at The New York Times. You interned for a distinguished media outlet, wrote for the best student-run newspaper in the country, and graduated with awards and honors. You attended all the seminars, visited professors’ office hours, and scheduled meetings with the university career center. What do you have to show for it now? You have a Substack.”

If colleges were honest about post-grad life, for and it's just Sarah, 2024

“‘Tell me you live in the Pacific Northwest without telling me you live in the Pacific Northwest.’

I’ve never been to the Pacific Northwest. But if I go, I don’t want to see the Seattle needle or the first Starbucks. I want to see fish swimming in the street.”

Being from somewhere, for and it's just Sarah, 2023

“Was the Record Salesman telling the truth? Was he really telling random customers the story of the young girl who bought a Tim Hardin record after it collected dust for years? Or did he know exactly what to say to flatter me into buying an unnecessary trilogy of folk records? Did he take one look at me, in my denim jacket and Docs, and see another college kid living in New York City with the burning desire to be as underground, as complex, as individual as possible when she’s anything but? If so, he was mostly wrong.”

The Record Salesman, published in The Washington Square Review, Lansing County Community College, Summer 2023

Poetry

“Oven Light” published in Dust literary magazine, Spring 2024

Poems published in Perception literary magazine in Syracuse, New York, Fall 2019