Features
“From Tragedy to Comedy: How Pittsburgh’s Comedy Scene Is Rebuilding Itself,” Pittsburgh Magazine, April 3, 2025 [link]
“Matters of the Mind,” Carnegie Magazine, Spring 2025 [link]
“Shuman reopening continues two-century child incarceration debate in Allegheny County,” PublicSource, September 10, 2024 [link]
“What Makes People Sick or Healthy? These Pennsylvanians Are Part of a Study That Tries To Answer That Question,” Pittsburgh Magazine, May 2024 [link]
“How A Charter School On Troy Hill Is Defeating Dyslexia,” Pittsburgh Magazine, September 2023 [link]
2024 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Awards Finalist: Excellence in Written Journalism, Education
“Diversity in Nature,” Carnegie Magazine, Winter 2022 [link]
2023 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Awards Finalist: Excellence in Written Journalism, Science/Environment
“The road to reclaiming the National Negro Opera Company house,” NEXTpittsburgh, October 12, 2022 [link]
“Tracing Pittsburgh’s Roots to Fort Ligonier,” Pittsburgh Magazine, August 2022 [link]
“The most common pregnancy complication? A mental health disorder. A Pittsburgh program aims to address it,” PublicSource, July 11, 2022 [link]
“Tracing Pittsburgh’s Roots to Fort Ligonier,” Pittsburgh Magazine, August 2022 [link]
“How the OneTen Coalition is Ensuring Black Talent Without Four-Year Degrees Grow Their Careers,” Pittsburgh Magazine, January 2022 [link]
“How Kinship Care Transformed Allegheny County’s Child-Welfare System,” Pittsburgh Magazine, September 2021 [link]
“A Helping Hand for New Parents in Allegheny County,” Pittsburgh Magazine, September 2021 [link]
“A Pittsburgh-based expert in helping children with neurological blindness seeks new home for progressive practice,” PublicSource, August 19, 2021 [link]
“How to Improve Workplace Diversity in Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh Magazine, December 2020 [link]
“The Dubious Ways Parents Are Pressured to Give Up Their Children for Adoption,” VICE, August 13, 2019 [link]
“A Matter of Pride: Delta Foundation’s Struggles with Success,” Pittsburgh Magazine, June 2018 [link]
2019 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Awards Finalist: Excellence in Written Journalism, History/Culture
News
“Forensic Anthropology Tools of the Trade,” PBS Independent Lens, October 9, 2023 [link]
“New York’s Foster Care Providers Sue State over Reimbursement Rates,” The Imprint, March 7, 2023 [link]
“What You Can See and Do at Pittsburgh’s New Moonshot Museum,” Pittsburgh Magazine, October 24, 2022 [link]
“Best Activities for Kids in Pittsburgh with Mobility Impairments,” Pittsburgh Magazine, July 2022 [link]
Profiles
“5 Pittsburgh Comedians to Know,” Pittsburgh Magazine, April 3, 2025 [link]
“6 Pittsburgh Nonprofits That Serve Different Communities Around Town: Safe Moves for Seniors,” Pittsburgh Magazine, October 15, 2024 [link]
Mary Beth Friga Wusk, Distinguished Citizen Leader Alumni Award, Longwood Magazine, Summer 2024
Paige Turnes, Distinguished Professional Achievement Award, Longwood Magazine, Summer 2024
Steve Greene, “‘How This Pittsburgher is Providing Hope for Ghana,” Pittsburgh Magazine, November 2023 [link]
Marion Damick, “‘Try to do something’: 97-year-old Marion Damick shares 20-year history of attending Jail Oversight Board meetings,” PINJ, January 31, 2023 [link]
Interviews and Reviews
“Anxiety and dread meet youthful nostalgia at KAWS + Warhol,” Pittsburgh City Paper, June 5, 2024 [link]
“The Andy Warhol Museum Is Showing Never-Seen-Before Art,” Pittsburgh Magazine, February 2024 [link]
“Incarcerated artists convey toll of life sentences with Kelly Strayhorn Theater show,” Pittsburgh City Paper, March 14, 2024 [link]
“Kelly Strayhorn Theater presents a mother of an art show with Eternal Maternal,” Pittsburgh City Paper, November 28, 2023 [link]
David Ambroz, A Place Called Home, The Imprint, September 8, 2022 [link]
Essays
“The hardest decision I ever made for my son,” PublicSource, May 2, 2025, [link]
“Maybe-Visions,” Fast Fierce Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction, Gina Barreca, ed., Woodhall Press, 2022
“Why Didn’t “Kate & Allie” Ever Come Out of the Closet?” INTO, April 26, 2022 [link]
“I have a medically complex child. I’ve been waiting for the day to get him vaccinated, and now I can finally breathe,” Insider, November 11, 2021 [link]
“I’m At Home With A Profoundly Disabled Child And I’m Afraid I Can’t Meet His Needs,” HuffPost, April 8, 2020 [link]
“Foster Care: Heroic Measures,” Entropy, June 6, 2019 [link]
“Perspective: Making Space,” Pittsburgh Magazine, November 2018 [link]
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