He covers education for WLRN and is a longtime contributor to Marketplace. He has written for Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Slate, Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald, and The Common, among others, and produced radio stories for All Things Considered, Morning Edition, The World and Latino USA. He served as the launch editor for the African Makers series on Medium, a collection of writing about creativity in business and social welfare around Africa. He studied anthropology at Columbia University, was a 2011-2012 Fulbright Scholar in Mozambique, a 2013 International Reporting Project (IRP) fellow in Nigeria, and received a 2013 Jon Davidoff scholarship at the Wesleyan Writers Conference.