Selected Stories
“How Migration Became a U.S. Foreign-Policy Priority,” Foreign Policy, Oct. 2024
“Why Brazil’s Supreme Court Took on Elon Musk,” Foreign Policy, Sept. 2024
“Will New Leaders Shake Up Mexico’s Nearshoring Boom?” Foreign Policy,
“How Oil-Rich Colombia is Trying to Go Green,” Foreign Policy, Nov. 2023
“Inside Petro’s Peace Experiment,” Foreign Policy, Jun. 2023
“Spain Pitches Closer EU-Latin America Ties,” Foreign Policy, March 2023
“Chile Bets Big on Green Hydrogen,” Foreign Policy, Apr. 2022
“Ecuador’s Distant Dream of a Green Recovery,” Foreign Policy, Apr. 2022
“The Open Secret of Government-Gang Talks,” Foreign Policy, Apr. 2022
“Argentina and Ecuador Choose Business Over Boycotts in Beijing,” Foreign Policy, Feb. 2022
“Meet the Indigenous Leaders Reshaping Ecuador’s Politics,” Foreign Policy, Dec. 2021
“The U.S.-Mexico Drug War Gets a Rebrand,” Foreign Policy, Oct. 2021
“Latin America’s COVID-19 Fiasco is Also a Crisis of Regional Integration,” Foreign Policy, Apr. 2021
“The Worst Of COVID-19 Should Be Over For One Hard-Hit Brazilian City. But It's Not,” NPR, Dec. 2020
“Bolsonaro made Brazil a pandemic pariah. Can local leaders restore the country’s reputation for health leadership?” Foreign Affairs, July 2020
“How Brazil’s Covid-19 Response Has Fallen to Community Leaders,” The New Humanitarian, May 2020
“Indigenous Brazilians Come Together To Defend Amazon Forest Against Fires,” NPR, Sept. 2019
“Brazil Reduces Sex Education Amid Spike in Sexually Transmitted Infections,” The World, Nov. 2019
“Feminism is Uniting Argentina’s Left and Right,” Foreign Policy, Oct. 2019
“Economic Crisis Unites Argentina’s Fractured Peronist Movement,” The World, Oct. 2019
“The Christian Coalition That Helped Elect Bolsonaro Has Started to Crumble,” Foreign Policy, Apr. 2019
“Tragedy in the Vulture’s Nest: The preventable death of 10 rising stars at Flamengo,” ESPN, Feb. 2019
“Security reformers in Bolsonaro’s Brazil look to America’s pro-gun campaigners,” The World, Feb. 2019
“Evangelicals in Brazil Turn the Political Tide,” Interfaith Radio, Sept. 2018
“Marielle’s Heirs: How a politician’s murder inspired black women to run for office,” Roads & Kingdoms, Aug. 2018
“‘I Know How Far I Can Go’: Black Entrepreneurs Overcome Challenges In Brazil,” NPR, July 2018
“The Undeniable Charm of Brazil’s Latest Dance Craze,” Americas Quarterly, Nov. 2017
“How a Whisper Can Help Fight Labor Trafficking in Brazil,” The World, May 2017
“Young Barbers in Brazil Are Cutting Away from Traditional Barbershops,” NPR, Nov. 2016
“Why The Progress Made by Brazil’s Black Activists Might Now Unravel,” Newsweek, Nov. 2016
“Amid Political Turmoil, Brazilian Fact-Checking Grows,” Poynter, Nov. 2016
“Brazil’s Generation of Discontent,” Foreign Affairs, Oct. 2016
“A Requiem for Rousseff in a Rio Favela,” The Atlantic, Sept. 2016
“There’s an official funk song for the Olympics. But funk artists in Rio say they face persecution,” The World, Aug. 2016
“Deciphering Islamophobia in Brazil,” The Islamic Monthly, April 2016
“Meet the Andrew Breitbart of Brazil,” Foreign Policy, March 2016
“How Brazilians Use WhatsApp to Connect on Zika,” Frontline/The World, Feb. 2016
“Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Program Slips Back to Tactics From Its Bloody ‘War on Drugs,’” The World, Oct. 2015
“In Brazil, Syrian Refugees Retrace Migration Trails,” NPR, Sept. 2015
“Rio’s Eviction Predilection,” The Architectural Review, May 2015
“South America’s Largest City is Running Out of Water,” The World, March 2015
“Ghettos of the World Cup: Inside Rio’s Displacement Industry,” Next City, June 2014
