Visualizing how redlining shaped Los Angeles freeways and future patterns of pollution

6.30.2023 — I created some maps and graphics for AfroLA on the roots of today's disparate impacts of pollution in the segregation and racist planning processes of mid-20th century Los Angeles.

“Vipassanā In Certain Conditions” electronic poetry collaboration with Casey Clague

1.11.2023 — The lines appear like thoughts that arise unbidden during meditation, some recurring and nagging. As those are dismissed, new ones appear after an interval.

6.6.2022 — A friend's brother was part of the Moderna vaccine trials during the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Work on “Following Covid Money” recognized by EWA and California News Publishers

5.27.2022 — I was recognized along with teammates at EdSource for work we did in 2021 on the Following Covid Money in Education investigative report.

4.22.2022 — Teju Cole's metaphor for urban metamorphosis links up with some of Lefebvre's ideas about space: a dialectic between domination and appropriation.

Analyzing representations of the poor with the Endo/Exo Writers Project

3.1.2022 — In 2021, I got involved in a collaborative academic research initiative called the Endo/Exo Writers Project. Research I did for the project is now available to view on their recently launched website.

2.28.2022 — It seems necessary to explore the resonances, ambiguities and affordances of digital time to better understand and inform cultural theory and specifically, critiques of capitalism.

Catching up with Pokey LaFarge

11.8.2021 — Some notes following my interview with Pokey LaFarge this year, from a piece I wrote for Riff Magazine.

Design work for EdSource awarded at CNPA 2020

5.18.2021 — My design work was recognized twice by the California News Publishers Association at this year's California Journalism Awards for work done in 2020.

Named a finalist for news design award by California News Publishers Association

3.10.2020 — The California News Publishers Association (CNPA) released their lists of finalists for this year today, and I’m in the running for an award for “Story Presentation, Page Layout & Design” in the digital small newsrooms category.

“A Space Between Doors” published in Stone Canoe

3.1.2020 — My short story “A Space Between Doors” was published in this year’s edition of Syracuse literary journal Stone Canoe.

5.15.2019 — The data and interactives team at EdSource - Daniel J. Willis, Yuxuan "Sunny" Xie, and myself - was honored with the Best Visual Storytelling Award for a small newsroom.