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Clips

TECH

GOOGLE

• "Come for the sample app, stay for the main course: Cloud Spanner free trial instances" 15 Sept. 2022
• "Orchestrating your data workloads in Google Cloud" 18 June 2021
• ​"A new query experience for Cloud Spanner: editor, query plan, and more" 22 Feb. 2021
• Analyzing NCAA Basketball with GCP Medium publication, editor: 2018-2019
• "Grafana and BigQuery: Together at last" 18 Oct. 2019
• "Introducing the BigQuery Terraform module" 20 Aug. 2019
• ​"How Google Cloud Uses Real-Time Data to Engage College Basketball Fans" 6 Aug. 2019
• "Breathing Easy with Bigtable" 13 June 2019
• "Let the queries begin: How we built our analytics pipeline for NCAA March Madness" 14 March 2019
• "Turning data into NCAA March Madness insights" 14 March, 2019
• ​"Gridiron in the Cloud: Hacking on Football with GCP" 28 Jan. 2019
• "Architecting live NCAA predictions: from archives to insights" 30 March, 2018
• "Google Cloud and NCAA team up for a unique March Madness competition hosted on Kaggle"  27 Feb. 2018

PALANTIR

• "Following the Ivory," 16 September 2014
• "Analyzing the Present and Possible Futures of the U.S. Veterans Population With CNAS and Palantir Metropolis," 7 August 2014
• "Mapping the Syrian Crisis with the Carter Center," 5 June 2014
• "The Palantir Scholarship for Women in Engineering Finalists Are Here," 10 March 2014
• "How Many Years a Slave?," 24 January 2014
• "New Office for NCMEC, New Possibilities," 19 December 2013
• "C4ADS and the Odessa Network," 6 November 2013

OTHER

Text IQ (acquired by Relativity)

PandaPay

TALKS

• "Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Communication", Exec|Comm, Oct. 2023
• The cast of Broadway's The Kite Runner, Talks at Google, Sept. 2022
• ​Getting into the UX field with content writers and strategists, UXPA International, Feb. 2019

JOURNALISM

THE BROOKLYN QUARTERLY

• "Life After Wandering," Issue 2
• "Senegal and Storytelling," Issue 2

DUKE MAGAZINE

• "New App Aims to Transform Social Media," Winter 2013, p. 51
• "Finding 'Moral' Ground," Special 2013, p. 7
• "Rapper on the Rise," Summer 2013, p. 49
• "What We've Learned: Primates," Summer 2013, p. 18
• "Cleaning Up the Scum," Summer 2013, p. 17
• “Pancakes and Donuts and Pizza, Oh My!” Spring 2013, p. 18-19
• "Planet Duke: Russia - Don't Call It A Study Abroad," Spring 2013, p. 13
• "Duke Delegates in Doha," Spring 2013, p. 12
• “Are We Recording?” Duke Magazine blog, 16 November 2012
• “Senior Moment: Five Duke seniors reshape the culture of the women’s soccer team,” November-December 2012, p. 52-54
• “A Warehouse’s Second Act,” November-December 2012, p. 11
• “What We’ve Learned: Saddam Hussein,” November-December 2012, p. 18

• “La-la-la-Latvia,” November-December 2012, p. 51
• “How Are You ForeverDuke: David Morgenstern,” November-December 2012, p. 57
• “Duke, Basketball, Forward,” Duke Magazine blog, 26 October 2012
• “Look Out Blue Devil, There’s a New Mascot in Town,” Duke Magazine blog, 1 October 2012
• “Planet Duke: South Africa – Immersed in History,” September-October 2012, p. 16
• “Archival Reunion,” September-October 2012, p. 14
• “Maxing Out the Visa,” September-October 2012, p. 15
• “Students on the Stump,” September-October 2012, p. 15
• “Taking the Show on the Road,” September-October 2012, p. 55
• “Present History,” July-August 2012, p. 36-41
• “Digging Deep: Duke linemen lend muscle to a well project in Ethiopia,” July-August 2012, p. 42-43

• ​“Who Needs Feminism? Lots of People,” July-August 2012, p. 14
• “While You Were Sleeping: In search of a good night’s rest at the Millennium Hotel,” May-June 2012, p. 20-21
• “What We’ve Learned: The Brain,” May-June 2012, p. 18
• “Twin Lives,” March-April 2012, p. 18-19
• “Q&A with Stephen Kelly: Discovering Our True North,” March-April 2012, p. 20-21
• “Still Clucking,” March-April 2012, p. 11
• “The Producer,” March-April 2012, p. 12
• “Let’s Dance,” March-April 2012, p. 13
• “The Century Club,” March-April 2012, p. 16
• “The Brain as Common Ground,” March-April 2012, p. 17
• “Jimmy Soni ’07: Riding High in the Blogosphere,” March-April 2012, p. 59
• “Model House,” January-February 2012, p. 30-35
• “By the Numbers: The Link,” January-February 2012, p. 7
• “Swift Bonding,” January-February 2012, p. 9
• “Pastoral Art,” January-February 2012, p. 11
• “Leaps and Bounds: Duke’s largest student production is a showcase of unbridled talent,” January-February 2012, p. 20-21
• “Brooms Up! The Harry Potter generation brings a new sport to Duke,” November-December 2011, p. 22-23
• “Center of Attention: Junior Allison Vernerey expects big things this year,” November-December 2012, p. 18-19
• “Q&A with Kevin Smith: Copyrights and Copywrongs,” November-December 2011, p. 20-21
• “High-Tech Hat tricks,” November-December 2011, p. 12

THE NEW YORKER

(full author archive)

• “When Cursive Cried Wolf,” 31 Aug. 2011
• “Where Latin and Arabic Meet: A Bridging of Two Alphabets,” 29 June 2011
• “Game Night at the N.Y.P.L.,” 24 May 2011
• “All Hail the King,” 19 May 2011
• “What’s On View at the N.Y.P.L.’s Centennial Exhibit,” 17 May 2011
• “What’s Really Under the Sea,” 3 May 2011
• “Whitman the Scrivener,” 20 April 2011
• “Down Below the Street: Helvetica and the New York City Subway,” 6 April 2011
• “The Exchange: Ben Ryder Howe and My Korean Deli,” 5 April 2011
• “Help for the (Casual) Book Hoarder,” 25 March 2011
• “The Colors of St. Patrick’s Day,” 17 March 2011
• “3-D Printing: Leaping Off the Page?” 15 March 2011
• “The Google Art Project vs. Leonardo’s Ghostly Image,” 28 Feb. 2011
• “War, Boredom, and Journalism,” 22 Feb. 2011 (Featured in Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” blog at TheAtlantic.com)
•  “For Your Coffee Break: Coffee Talk, Coffee Revolution,” 4 Feb. 2011 (Featured in Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” blog at TheAtlantic.com)
• “For the Book Lover, V-Day Advice” 25 Jan. 2011 (Featured in The Huffington Post)
• “The C.S. Lewis Bible,” 11 Jan. 2011

THE REVEALER

(full author archive)

• “Outside the Law: Cheryl Perich and the First Amendment,” 17 Jan. 2012
• “The Dream of Full Unity: The Catholic Church Invites Anglicans to Come On Over,” 4 Feb. 2011
• “Imagination Standing in for Belief,” 14 Jan. 2011

ESPN THE MAGAZINE

• “6 Things You Should Know About Being a Cheerleader Coordinator,” 13 December 2010
  
• “What Lies Beneath,” 1 November 2010, p. 132
  
• “Striped Down,” 26 July 2010, p. 36

FIELD & STREAM

• “Close Call with Mountain Lion,” July 2010
  
• “Game Faces,” July 2010
• “Q&A with Jon Michael McGrath III,” July 2010

OTHER

• "Spring Break Beats," Sunset (Westphoria), 25 March 2015
  
• "10 Things I Learned From Editing Obituaries For Two Years" The Hairpin, 7 April 2014
  
• “Manna Catering Offers Pop-up Experience for Kosher Diners,” New York Grub Street, 17 April 2012
  
• “Scoreboard Jesus,” The New Inquiry, 13 Jan. 2012
  
• “Immigration Reform Advocates Stage Rally on Steps of City Hall in New York,” Latin America News Dispatch, 10 March 2010
  
• “The Religion Beat: Pushed Out of the Pew?” NYU Livewire, Dec. 2009
  
• “A Clash Of Cultures in Qatar,” The Jewish Week, 19 Dec. 2008
  
• “Facing New Bias On Campus,” The Jewish Week, 29 October 2004 (Archived in Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Faculty Forum, 2 Nov. 2004)
• “Mustang Sally,” Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Key Award for short fiction, 2003

EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

Upperline School of Code

• "Teacher Profile: Jeff Astor," 4 Aug. 2016
• "What To Bring to Class," 23 June 2016
• "Computer Language Fundamentals: Five Core Concepts," 13 June 2016
• "AP Computer Science and Coding Immersives: How Do They Compare?," 24 May 2016
• "What Are Libraries and What Do I Do With Them?," 17 May 2016
• "What Is GitHub and Why Do I Need to Use It?," 10 May 2016
• "Four Uncomfortable Words to Get Comfortable With ASAP," 3 May 2016
• "Coder-Turned-TA: Katherine T.," 26 April 2016
• "Help! I Don't Know What I'm Doing! (Aka, What To Do About the Impostor Syndrome)," 20 April 2016
• "What is Group Learning and Why is it Good for CS?," 12 April 2016
• "Can I Program A Tesla?," 6 April 2016

BOOKS

• The Architecture of Privacy, O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2015.

THEATER

• Abraham’s Daughters, a full-length play, Soho Playhouse, New York, NY, 13-29 August 2010; Selected for The 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival; playwright, producer 
  
• Migration, a play in one act, New York University, 5-6 December 2009; Gallatin Theater Troupe’s Brandspankin’ Showcase, playwright, director

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