This commentary originally appeared in print in The Baltimore Sun on Thursday, June 13, 2013. When they left me outside my freshman dorm in the fall of 2009, my parents told me I could do anything. It was a wonderful compliment, a sign of confidence that made me feel...
This column originally appeared in print in Editor and Publisher magazine on Aug. 16, 2012. The second Saturday of my internship with El Nuevo Herald, I was sent to a restaurant in Little Havana for a story. There, a Cuban man, angry with the Herald for not covering...
This essay originally appeared in print in W&L Alumni Magazine in March 2012. For three days, in the most patriotic gymnasium I’ve ever seen, I’ve watched my classmates introduce governor after congresswoman, and wield television cameras and a wooden...
This op-ed piece originally appeared in print in Richmond Times-Dispatch on Sunday, May 8, 2011–Mother’s Day. LEXINGTON, Va.–The news of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s death came to me the other night when I leaned out of a classroom window to make...