Nonfiction

Essays/Commentary

“What’s Your Support System Like?” Romper, June 2025

“My Love-Hate Relationship with Lovevery,” Romper, February 2025

“Redefining Success,” Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2021

Journalism

Snopes

'Noise and Confusion': Fake News in Ecuador, February 2018

Is 'Covfefe' a Word in Arabic? Yiddish? 'Antidiluvian'? June 2017

The Atlantic

To Be a Guerrilla, and a Woman, in Colombia, September 2016

There is No Plan B for the FARC Deal, October 2016

The Guardian

'They come, they photograph us, but they don't help': How ecotourism in the Amazon shortchanges the locals, March 2015

Smithsonian

How Colombia’s Failed Peace Treaty Could Wreak Havoc on Its Diversity-Rich Ecosystems, November 2016

Refugees Deeply

U.S. Refugee Groups Grapple With 'Crushing Human Cost' of Trump Order, February 2017

Foreign Policy

Politics Roils Colombia's Tentative Peace Deal with the FARC, July 2016

Killings of Environmental Defenders Surged in 2015, June 2016

Dalai Lama: Those Who Cause Bloodshed Are Not 'Genuine' Practitioners of Islam, June 2016

From El Chapo to The Snail, Is It Time to Stop Celebrating the Arrests of Drug Kingpins? May 2016

It Takes Two Dead Activists for Banks to Suspend Funding for Honduran Project, March 2016

Why Was This Prominent Honduran Activist Murdered in Her Own Home? March 2016

Why Did One of America’s Most Controversial Immigration Detention Facilities Get Even Bigger? November 2015

More Foreign Policy stories

Guernica Daily

Justice and Peace in the Shrinking Forest (Parts One and Two), July 2015

Earth Island Journal

Interview with Kichwa Leader Franco Viteri, Autumn 2015 

Vice Munchies

Spreading the Kimchi and K-Drama Gospel in Ecuador, March 2015