About
I'm a reporter with the Tampa-based NPR station, WUSF 89.7. Below are pictures of a couple of my favorite interviews: with astronaut Cady Coleman just before the end of the US space shuttle program in 2011, and with actor John Cusack at the Straz Center in July 2019, on the 30th anniversary of the movie classic "Say Anything."
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I like to write about things that matter, and people who are changing the world in ways big and small. Click here for my latest stories from WUSF.
I’ve worked as a foreign correspondent in Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Gaza, Jerusalem and Nicosia, and have reported from Baku, Kiev, Rome and Tbilisi.
Prior to joining WUSF, I worked as Agence France-Presse’s health and science correspondent, covering environmental issues, space, medicine and research in North America.
My writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, National Geographic, and newspapers around the world. Early in my career, I freelanced for WFUV in the Bronx and Voice of America in New York and Cairo.
My first book, "Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band's True Story of Tragedy, Mourning and Recovery,” was published in 2004 by Rutgers University Press. It’s a non-fiction account of the year after the September 11 attacks, when New York City’s firefighter musicians dug for lost brothers at the World Trade Center site and played at more than 400 funerals and memorial services.
I earned my MS in Journalism and a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Cultural Reporting from Columbia University in 2002, and a BA in Language and Area Studies from American University’s School of International Service in 1996.
I’ve worked as a foreign correspondent in Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Gaza, Jerusalem and Nicosia, and have reported from Baku, Kiev, Rome and Tbilisi.
Prior to joining WUSF, I worked as Agence France-Presse’s health and science correspondent, covering environmental issues, space, medicine and research in North America.
My writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, National Geographic, and newspapers around the world. Early in my career, I freelanced for WFUV in the Bronx and Voice of America in New York and Cairo.
My first book, "Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band's True Story of Tragedy, Mourning and Recovery,” was published in 2004 by Rutgers University Press. It’s a non-fiction account of the year after the September 11 attacks, when New York City’s firefighter musicians dug for lost brothers at the World Trade Center site and played at more than 400 funerals and memorial services.
I earned my MS in Journalism and a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Cultural Reporting from Columbia University in 2002, and a BA in Language and Area Studies from American University’s School of International Service in 1996.