Published Stories

	PBS WIDE ANGLE Web Producer Responsible for translating the weekly foreign affairs documentary series into an online, interactive experience by reporting on web-exclusive features and blogging daily.
	NYC24: The Image Issue Executive Editor May 2008, edited 11 multimedia stories NYC24.com, in its fifth issue, shows how New York City is obsessed with image - both personal and public. In 11 stories, our reporters uncovered the places where perception and reality conflict. We probed the boundary between where a person's image ends and identity begins.
	NYC24: From Shelter to Office, A New Class of Homeless Grows on Staten Island May 2008, multimedia story On Staten Island, homelessness hides behind shelter doors, walks in designer clothes and carries cell phones. Homelessness has blended into Staten Island communities that still hold on to the image of the drunken or mentally ill nesting in the ferry terminal.
	NYC24.com: Nerdy Games Rock Bars April 2008, multimedia story If you're longing to re-do the time you were ousted in that grade-school spelling bee, pulverized in debate class, or left in outer orbit in Solarquest (my childhood favorite). Now is your second chance. And you can play games while sipping cocktails in bars!
	Flux Factory Flaunts Final Show in LIC April 2008, stand-alone video Flux Factory, an artist collective in Long Island City, unveiled its final exhibition,"Everything Must Go." Art installations spread out across bathrooms, bedrooms, and even the laundry room of this 7,500 square-foot space, which is set to be demolished to make way for MTA expansion.
	Citypicklers.com: Reviving local food, one pickle at a time April 2008, multimedia story Driven by the local food movement, pickling is making a comeback on home countertops and in gourmet grocery aisles. The website, citypicklers.com, crunches on the pickle's impact on New York culture, health and community.
	U.S. Handball Magazine April 2008, print story Handball players from Queens credit the game with keeping them off the streets and out of trouble. Several players are also ranked nationally by the United States Handball Association, in Tuscon, Ariz. (PDF to come)
	NYC24.com: Gay Immigrants Find Safe Space in New York March 2008, multimedia story After 9/11, U.S. priorities shifted from providing a safe space for others to protecting its own citizens. Today, immigrants fleeing persecution are applying for asylum in fewer numbers as deportation rates are increasing.
	NYC24.com: People Die, Stuff Lives February 2008, multimedia story Objects take on a life of their own after their owner's death, finding their way into hipster living rooms, immigrant kitchens and even to the developing world. This story was cross-published by the Queens Tribune. (PDF)
	NYC24.com: AcroYoga Flies Off the Mat and Into the Air February 2008, multimedia story From clowns and trapeze artists to business analysts and advertising executives, AcroYoga is attracting more practitioners with its playful and therapeutic atmosphere. AcroYoga blends partner yoga, acrobatics and Thai massage.
	Queens Tribune: All It Takes is a Dollar and a Wall January 2008, print story Outdoor handball courts empty out during colder months when hands begin to sting from slapping the ball. But serious handball players take the sport indoors and train at the Elks Lodge on Queens Boulevard, as part of a new Elks Fraternity membership initiative. (PDF)
	Queens Tribune: Living the Hip-Hop Life in Corona January 2008, print story Since 1998, All the Right has been a fixture in this working-class, mostly Latino neighborhood, attracting local rappers and graffiti artists and generating buzz by word of mouth as far away as Japan. (PDF)
	Queens Tribune: Artist Finds Niche Helping Kids January 2008, print story Teaching Artist, Andrew Ronan is working with 17 high school juniors from the Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights to create a 40-minute performance addressing incoming freshman fears of hazing, sexual pressures, drugs, and gangs. (PDF)
	Queens Tribune: From Central Asian to a New Homeland December 2007, print story Gulchekhra Alimova has become the inadvertent go-to person for Central Asian immigrant needs. She said Vatan Asia, which translates to “Homeland Asia” in Uzbek, has a network of about 5,000 in New York and 9,000 across the U.S. (PDF)
	Queens Chronicle: Teens Trace Roots at Bukharian Museum December 2007, print story Every Monday night, seven teenagers from Forest Hills High School file in Bukharian Jewish Musueum for an eight-week internship program, where they are learning about their ancestral identity and preparing to guide tours. (PDF) This story was cross-published on the Bukharian Jewish website, bjews.com.
	Unexpected Folk Arts in Queens December 2007, multimedia story Queens is a borough known for its immigrants, airports and ethnic restaurants — not necessarily its folk arts scene.Within the past three decades, Queens has become a place for cultural creative juices to flow.
	Queens Tribune: Skateboarding in Queens November 2007, print story Today, the skater image popularized by music videos, YouTube and video games has eclipsed the rebel skater. Teenagers in Elmhurst, Queens have adopted the revised skateboard image they see in music videos. (PDF to come)
	Queens Chronicle: Tai Chi Is Winning Over Converts To Exercise November 2007, print story Tai Chi appears to be growing in popularity for young and old, thin and overweight, and sufferers of disease or abuse. Various ethnic and age groups find the practice appealing. (PDF)
	Queens Tribune: It's Not His Father's Neigborhood October 2007, print story Joe Neufeld runs the family funeral business his father opened in 1940. The Neufeld family has been rooted in Elmhurst since 1900. Though he now lives on Long Island, Neufeld said he would return to Elmhurst tomorrow if his wife, Claire, allowed it. But, he also said he sees problems in the community he loves. (PDF)

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