Hi! I’m a reporter who likes making politics less confusing. I love stories that illuminate the behind-the-scenes of government—or zoom into how ordinary people, especially of vulnerable identities, experience big state policies or systems.
I previously worked at The Boston Globe, where I became half of a 2-reporter team covering Congress amidst the Roe draft leak and Uvalde shooting. Along the way, I broke the scandal of a senator’s accusation against two Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices, who she claims privately assured her Roe wouldn’t go.
Before that, I spent a year reporting on Covid-19 at National Public Radio, focusing on pandemic responses in the Global South. My work there included a 20+ article explanatory series on the virus, an analysis of Covid mortality data shared by WHO’s Chief Scientist and coverage of an East African insect crisis that became one of the section’s most-read stories of 2020.
I hold degrees from Oxford, where I was a Clarendon Scholar, and Northwestern, where I won department essay prizes in religion and literature. At my college paper, I led an investigation which uncovered a string of precarious contracts that drove nearly a dozen professors to quit within five years. My reporting on a policy that auctioned Americans’ mortgages to private equity firms after the 2008 housing crash won the Fletcher Prize in 2021.
I’m Bombay-born, Jersey-raised, and adore reality TV.