Editor, writer & researcher

I am the associate editor of Ideas at The Boston Globe. I edit and write essays for our weekly issue, which runs in print on Sundays. My interests are wide, ranging from literature and the outdoors to human rights and foreign affairs. I look for writers who immerse themselves in unusual places in order to find out something interesting about the world or themselves, whether that's bushwhacking through the wilderness or reading old letters in an archive — and then tell readers about their discoveries with style. If that's you, let's talk.

As for me, I've brought new voices into the Globe's pages, interviewed Jonathan Haidt, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane, and written about dictators, free speech, and everyone's favorite viral social media question: Man or bear? I also produced the Wild Issue, a special edition of Ideas on the changing relationship we have with nature.

I came to editing from a decade in journalism and human rights. Before the Globe I was the inaugural senior editor of Harvard Public Health magazine, where I built its digital operation from the ground up, a senior researcher at PEN America, and an investigator at Physicians for Human Rights and Amnesty International, where my work on Kashmir got me expelled from India. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Boston Globe, Al Jazeera, and The Hindu.