About

I’m a PhD candidate in sociology at the Freie Universität in Berlin. My research focuses on housing, displacement, and tenant organizing in California. I also work as a freelance writer and translator. My writing has appeared in Jacobin, New Politics, the peer-reviewed anthropology journal Focaal, and the sustainability magazine Pioner. I’m a member of the editorial board of the Urban Political Podcast Collective. My translation clients include the reproductive health app Clue, the architecture magazine ARCH+, the German Architecture Museum (DAM), and My African Food Map.

For translation or writing inquiries, please contact me here.

Publications

“Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table,” Jacobin, 2024

“New Tools Are Helping More Tenants Than Ever Fight Eviction and Rent Debt,” Jacobin, 2023

“The Eviction Crisis Is About To Hit Los Angeles,” Jacobin, 2023

“The Gentrification Scheme Behind Los Angeles’s “No-Build” Olympics,” Jacobin, 2023

“Los Angeles is Refusing to Enforce Hard-Won Tenant Protections,” Jacobin, 2022

“How Oakland Tenants Forced Their Landlord to Turn Over the Keys,” Jacobin, 2022

“Corporate Landlords Are Taking Over — But Tenants Can Use Their Monopolies
Against Them,” Jacobin, 2022

“In Los Angeles, Tenants Just Secured a Historic Victory Over Landlords,” Jacobin, 2022

“We Can Decommodify Housing Through Eminent Domain,” Jacobin, 2022

“Fifteen Years of Urban Entrepreneurialism: Lessons from New Orleans,” New Politics, 2020

“Bernie Should Oppose Nonprofit Charter Schools, Too,” Jacobin, 2019

“Contending With School Reform: Neoliberal Restructuring, Racial Politics, and Resistance in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” Focaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2018

“In the Wake of Uber, A Local Non-Profit Ride-Sharing Solution,” Pioner, 2018

Podcasts

“Rent Strike Series Episode 3,” Urban Political Podcast, 2024

“Rent Strike Series Episode 2,” Urban Political Podcast, 2023

“Rent Strike Series Episode 1,” Urban Political Podcast, 2023

“Are Community Land Trusts Transformative?” Urban Political Podcast, 2023