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Selected work

The Hyde Park Herald​ got a new content management system in January 2020, which has made much of my work between that time and March 2018 difficult to access. The archives are available online.
  • "Hyde Parkers stay active through bad weather and restrictions," November 2020
  • "Hyde Park and Kenwood at-will testing sites work to meet demand of 2nd wave," November 2020
  • "Hyde Park retailers brace for holiday season as coronavirus situation deteriorates," November 2020
  • "Sen. Mattie Hunter, Democratic committeewoman, seeks to revive party in 20th Ward as turnout slumps," November 2020
  • "President-elect Biden wins more than 90% of vote in Hyde Park-Kenwood," November 2020
  • "Rep. Kelly tries to make sense of election results, says Democrats must stay united," November 2020
  • "Election Day passes quietly, as Hyde Park and city hold breath," November 2020
  • "Landon endorses state's health measures against COVID-19, urges compliance," October 2020
  • "Hyde Park restaurants reckon with new ban on indoor dining," October 2020
  • "In South Shore, nursing home workers remember first wave of pandemic," October 2020
  • "Plan for $60 million renovation of Cottage Grove 'L' station includes link to new POAH building," October 2020
  • "Drexel Blvd. improvements break ground in Kenwood; paths will be ready by end of fall," October 2020
  • "Cases, positivity increasing in Hyde Park area, as second wave of COVID threatens Chicago," October 2020
  • "50th anniversary of Gen. Richard Jones Armory rings with praise for Ill. National Guard’s Black history," October 2020
  • "A country escape, from epidemic to pandemic, in the footsteps of Hyde Parkers past," October 2020
  • "Vandalism of Breonna Taylor memorial reinforces kindergartners' lesson," October 2020
  • "Pritzker says graduated tax amendment would bring economic fairness, financial stability to Illinois," October 2020
  • "Bea Lumpkin, 102-year-old Kenwood socialist, votes by mail for Joe Biden," October 2020
  • "Black Hyde Park skincare specialists await return to work — and customers to receiving care," October 2020
  • "Hyde Park-Kenwood rabbis plan for High Holy Days of pandemic year 5781," September 2020
  • "Rep. Robin Kelly announces bid for Democratic leadership position in U.S. House," September 2020
  • "Cove Lounge, Falcon Inn regulars cap 6 weeks of potluck barbecues at Iowa Building," September 2020
  • "1st-day attendance at Hyde Park-Kenwood public elementary schools below district average, but grew through the week," September 2020
  • "Unions, patients frustrated as closure of clinics looms, though county promises preservation of services at Provident," August 2020
  • "Local Black women in politics look to one of their own, Kamala Harris, as Democrats' vice presidential nominee," August 2020
  • "Hyde Park couple start AYO, a West African frozen food line," July 2020
  • "Gayle Harris-Neely fulfills lifelong career goal as new Ray School principal," July 2020
  • "Muddy Waters' house gets renovations grant from African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund," July 2020
  • "New St. Thomas the Apostle School administration says responding to COVID, staff diversity top issues," July 2020
  • "Staff and residents at Montgomery Place, COVID-free since April, adapt to the pandemic," July 2020
  • "Lawsuit alleges George Floyd protesters arrested in Hyde Park did not get access to attorneys, phone calls in custody," July 2020
  • "Police broke into, lounged in Rep. Rush’s Washington Park campaign office as looters struck surrounding retailers," June 2020
  • "Police Board President Ghian Foreman reports police struck him with baton at May 31 protest," June 2020
  • "Thousands march through Bronzeville for Black lives, police reform," June 2020
  • "Governor, Black legislators call for police reform at Washington Park press conferences," June 2020
  • "How a peaceful protest march evolved into violence," June 2020
  • "Kenwood business owners, volunteers clean up after looting," June 2020
  • "Violence spreads to Hyde Park; mayor imposes citywide curfew; CTA curtails service," May 2020
  • "Hyde Park calm as mayor declares citywide curfew, 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.," May 2020
  • "Preckwinkle talks first veto of presidency, the coronavirus summer and beyond," May 2020
  • "Economics collides with public health as restaurant owners, government officials plan for advent of outdoor dining," May 2020
  • "Hundreds of meals distributed every day at Ray School: 'We don't ask questions. We'll just give you whatever you ask for,'" May 2020
  • "Remembering Bar Louie, icon of the 2000s for South Side Black professionals and creatives," May 2020
  • "Teachers outline difficulties middle schoolers cope with remote learning," May 2020
  • "Toni Preckwinkle focuses on the crises of the here and now," April 2020
  • "UCMC nurses say they are understaffed, overworked as 33 colleagues test positive for virus," April 2020
  • "30% of residents at South Shore nursing home infected with, under investigation for having coronavirus," April 2020
  • "North Kenwood block affirms life with daily, joyous, socially distant drum circle," April 2020
  • "Rebuild Foundation artists, in isolation, reflect on the times and look to the future," April 2020
  • "Chaturanga begins offering fitness classes online for free, and customers find community," March 2020
  • "U. of C. Medical Center experts urge people to stay home and help protect most vulnerable," March 2020
  • "Updates: Coronavirus preparations underway in Hyde Park-Kenwood," March 2020
  • "Rush tries to fend off 3 challengers as 1st District race winds down," March 2020
  • "Historic Sutherland sign loaned for traveling Smithsonian ‘Green Book’ exhibition," February 2020
  • "​Sola Salon franchisee sees expanding business a month after opening, and stylists are turning profits," February 2020
  • "Barbara O’Connor, architect of independent Hyde Park politics, dies at 89," January 2020
  • "Storm ravages lakefront; no money for repairs," January 2020
  • "King, Hairston vote yes on city budget that includes $15 minimum wage and tax levy increase," November 2019
  • "Rep. Rush looks back and forward; remembers Black Panthers and rails against Comcast," November 2019

Star Tribune
  • "Midwest Traveler: A Pride guide to LGBT Chicago," June 2019
  • "Midwest Traveler: When in Detroit, eat everything," September 2018
  • "Midwest Traveler: Cosmopolitan Columbus, Ohio, punches above its weight," April 2018
  • "Midwest Traveler: Northeast Ohio's old and new taste traditions," February 2018
  • "Midwest Traveler: Taking flight in Dayton, Ohio," January 2018
  • "Nebraska Panhandle holds High Plains vistas, kitsch and good grub," November 2017 
  • "Chicago's Elevated Northern Burb" (Evanston, Illinois), October 2017
    • Excerpted in The Week newsmagazine
  • "Midwest Traveler: French- and German-American history preserved in sleepy Ste. Genevieve, Mo." August 2017
  • "Midwest Traveler: Athens, Ohio, where the Old Northwest began," July 2017
  • "Notre Dame isn't the only sight to see in South Bend, Ind." March 2017
  • "Midwest Traveler: Lawrence is Kansas' cultural oasis," February 2017
  • "Midwest Traveler: Get to know the South Side of Chicago," December 2016
  • "Midwest Traveler: Bloomington, Ind., a great place to visit in summer," August 2016

them.
  • "At Downtown Olly’s, Indianapolis’ LGBTQ+ Community Finds a (24 Hour, Breakfast-Serving) Home," May 2019
  • "How Mississippi Is Fighting the Tide of an HIV Epidemic," May 2019

The Advocate​
  • "Pete Buttigieg Has Officially Announced His Run for President," April 2019
  • "Can You Get the PrEP You Need? A Special Report," April 2018
  • "Wisconsin voters chose Trump. Will they keep Tammy Baldwin?" July 2017
  • "Falling for Angels closes with a wedding and a meditation on urban gay life," January 2018
  • "Falling for Angels covers the gay threesome issues," January 2018
  • "Falling for Angels: Middle-age, sexless marriage: What's to be done?" January 2018
  • "Falling for Angels: Leimert Park details horrors of the closet," December 2017
  • "Falling for Angels explores Asian men leaving gay racism behind," December 2017
  • "Falling for Angels is a timely depiction of gay L.A," December 2017
  • ​"Dem candidates for Illinois Gov. spar over who's most LGBT-friendly," December 2017
  • "Facing closure, Chicago's oldest bathhouse throws epic party for the ages," November 2017​

The Hechinger Report
  • "Even at elite colleges lauded for their generosity, some students take on debt," March 2019
    • Published by NBC News: "Even at elite colleges lauded for generosity, some students take on debt," March 2019
  • "A big reason rural students never go to college: Colleges don’t recruit them," March 2019
    • Published by NPR: "One Reason Rural Students Don't Go To College: Colleges Don't Go To Them," March 2019

Chicago Reader
  • "Last night at Man’s Country: The pioneering gay bathhouse’s 13-hour final hurrah," January 2018

Gothenburg Times
  • "Lisa Yan cooks, lives the American Dream in Gothenburg, Neb." December 2017

Belt Magazine
  • "As Ohio goes: One year removed from Election Day 2016, voters from the ultimate bellwether state reflect on a divided nation," November 2017​​

Ethnography
  • "Aspirations and Expectations of Rural Indiana Adolescent Males," master's thesis, University of Chicago Division of Social Sciences, August 2017
  • "The College Choice Process of Top-Performing Rural Indiana High School Students," undergraduate honors thesis in sociology, Stanford University, May 2015

Sullivan Daily Times
  • Assorted clips, Summer 2009
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