
Prior to Sentient Media, I worked as a staff reporter at Civil Eats and a fellow at Grist. I've been published widely, including by The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Intercept, Guernica, The Nation, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Popular Science, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, Eater, Teen Vogue, Grist, Autostraddle, and The Center for Public Integrity. My articles have been anthologized in No Planet B, published by Haymarket Books, and The Best American Food Writing, edited by Mark Bittman. I'm a graduate of Reed College (English literature, BA) and Columbia Journalism School (science journalism, MA).
In 2024, I was awarded first place for print features reporting by the Louisiana Society of Professional Journalists and first place for news reporting by the North American Agricultural Journalists. I also received a Covering Climate Now award in the food and agriculture category for my investigation into the byzantine rules of crop insurance.
My favorite stories, when I'm lucky enough to report them, allow me
to peel back the layers of an issue but also catch a glimpse of
humanity--whether its farmworkers traveling overnight to vote in their election or shrimpers docking their boats to protest low wages--in the struggle to survive and even prosper in spite of it all.
In a past iteration of my life, I went by Greta. So a lot of my articles are still under that name. I use they pronouns.