Famous for her time as a pop culture and opinion piece writer for The Washington Post. She rose to widespread fame for her work as the culture editor of ThinkProgress, and has appeared on The Daily Best and Salon.
She earned her B.A. in humanities from Yale University.
She has worked as a correspondent for The Atlantic. She has also had her work published in The New York Times and The New Republic.
She was originally born and raised in Massachusetts.
She profiled Ken Burns for the Washington Post in a think piece published in September 2017.