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WRITING + DESIGN


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)
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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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