I’m a long-time history nerd. I stop to read plaques. 

My mother was deeply involved with the League of Women Voters during the push for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, and she made sure I knew about my foremothers. It's because of her efforts that I ended up writing SHE THE PEOPLE.

In 2008, I founded an Equal Rights Amendment page on Facebook in the hopes of renewing interest. My interactions on and around the page made me realize how little people actually knew about not only the ERA, but also how citizenship and democratic process works. That made me want to tell the story. 

As a result, my writing work is primarily focused on citizenship and gender, and the intersection of the two in the United States. I have written on these and connected subjects for the New York Times, Dame Magazine, and the Huffington Post, and have a story featured in Julie Klam's book, The Stars in Our Eyes.

On March 5, 2019, my book, SHE THE PEOPLE: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women's Equality, was published by Seal Press.

Mom grew up in veterans housing in Winthrop, Massachusetts on Boston Harbor. Dad grew up in the Bronx. I grew up as a stealth Townie in a gentrifying working class neighborhood in Brookline, Massachusetts.

The brilliant teachers at Brookline High School taught me how to write and that just keeps paying off. I will always be grateful that I had access to excellent public education.

I got my BFA degree in theater from Emerson College in Boston after an unsuccessful year at Grinnell College in Iowa and a gap year spent trying to figure myself out in San Diego and Europe. That travel was funded with a cashed-out $2000 mutual fund that my Dad had started for me at some point. Thanks, Dad.

After graduating Emerson, I moved to NYC where I took a half-hearted stab at pursuing acting, and then ended up doing stand up comedy, which was fantastic. I made money temping, then consulting, which pays more and involves less Xeroxing. 

I was in NYC for nine years, and then moved home to Brookline, Massachusetts to marry and have a kid, not necessarily in that order. I now have an amazing teenager and a decent ex-husband.

For two decades, I lived in Cambridge surrounded by intellectuals and hipster cafés. Now I’m an empty nester finding my next perch.

My exciting exploits have been documented in the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Thrillist, Deadspin, Refinery29, the Boston Globe, and other fine publications. I also got to play pundit for many years on WGBH's Greater Boston.

My current projects include my daily Substack, Dispatches From a Porch Swing, and a book about my mother and our shared journey with her Alzheimers.

Represented by Laura Mazer at Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc.