She is a contributing editor at CityLab and Architect, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, CNN, and many other outlets. In 2017 she won the Sarah Booth Conroy Prize for architectural writing. Her essay “Welcome to Disturbia,” on why Americans of the 1950s and ’60s thought the suburbs were making them sick, was one of the 10 most-read articles last year on Curbed (Vox Media). She lives in the multicultural suburb of Silver Spring, Md.