About

I’m a 27-year-old multimedia journalist, author, and associate editor and writer for GOOD magazine. At GOOD, I mostly write about politics, gender, sex, relationships, and how Millennials are hustlin’ through the recession. I also curate the Tumblr Minimum Ragers, based on my piece in GOOD’s spring 2012 issue about young, downwardly mobile food service workers.

My writing has appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, Slate, Salon, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, and Bitch, among others. I founded and blogged for 4 years at Girl-drive.com (based on my book of the same name), and have guest-blogged for a few other feministy and progressive sites. I was also named one of the The Feminist Press’ 40 Feminists Under 40 in 2010, which was cool, mainly because I got to meet Mira Nair and Uma Thurman.

I’ve also been intertwined with public radio a bunch; I was associate producer on Farai Chideya’s national Pop and Politics series and worked on WNYC’s music talk show Soundcheck. I was a founding co-host of “Feminist Wednesday” with Molly and Brian on Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo.org, and I still call to check in once in a while.

I co-authored the book, Girldrive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism, with my friend Emma Bee Bernstein. The book chronicles our road trip across the country to find out what young women think about feminism. I’m also the editor for a new anthology of my mama Ellen Willis’s rock criticism, called Out of the Vinyl Deeps.

I graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006. I wrote my honors thesis on 1970s porn movies and their influence on and reflection of the sex revolution and feminism—and got Wesleyan to pay for every porn movie I watched. Which is a fact I’m particularly proud of.