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On BTS’s “Butter” as 2021’s song of the summer, blurb for The Atlantic Daily (Sept. 2021)
Will Asian Americans Vote?, The American Prospect (Sept. 2016)
Yes, there has been a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic, VERIFY (May 2021)
Helping Hands: Local volunteering nonprofit turns 3, Baltimore magazine (Feb. 2017 print)
Michelle Obama's inauguration outfit lights up social media, TEGNA (Jan. 2021)
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What we know so far about the Moscow concert hall massacre
For Navajo and Hopi tribes, daylight saving is a time of confusion
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
The atlantic
On BTS’s “Butter” as 2021’s song of the summer, for The Atlantic Daily (Sept. 2021)
Authored The Atlantic’s daily “Today” feed for the app (7x a week, Aug 2021-2022)
TEGNA/VERIFY
Yes, there has been a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic, VERIFY (May 2021)
Where Ella Emhoff got her inauguration coat that everyone was talking about, TEGNA (Jan. 2021)
Michelle Obama's inauguration outfit lights up social media, TEGNA (Jan. 2021)
baltimore magazine
WTMD Celebrates the Human Voice with Embody (Sept. 2016 online)
The Launch: November 2016 (Nov. 2016 print)
Election Day 2016 Parties, Specials, and Events (Nov. 2016 Print)
Place in the Sun (Dec. 2016 print)
Have Phone, Will Travel: Local app creates connections in the Heart of Baltimore (Jan. 2017 print)
Helping Hands: Local volunteering nonprofit turns 3 (Feb. 2017 print)
kollaboration (defunct)
New Play "Office Hour" Tackles Issues of Mass Violence, and Korean-American Identity that Hits Close to Home (Apr. 2016)
Naomi Ko Talks Screenwriting, Taking on Hollywood Racism, and Writing Terrible Fan Fiction (Jun. 2016)
The American prospect
Will Asian Americans Vote?, The American Prospect (Sept. 2016)
Poll Shows Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders Flocking to Democratic Party (May 2016)
Q&A: Building a Movement for Democracy Reform, The American Prospect (Aug. 2016)
The johns hopkins newsletter
Beirut plays against typical indie sensibilities, (April 2016)
Radcircle (defunct)
The Districts Come Back With a Flourish and a Spoil (Mar. 2015)
Smoke N’ Mangos Touches Heartstrings in “Reflections from Home” (Aug. 2015)
Check out “Reach You Where You Are” by Benji Lewis (June 2015)
Radcircle Interviews: Bad Bare Fox (Oct. 2014)
Dry The River - New Cross (Sept. 2014)
PHOX - Slow Motion (July 2014)
Bleachers and Baltimore, a Love Story (Nov. 2014)
Listen to a Sketch of Lauryn Hill’s “Black Rage” (Nov. 2015)
8 Best Versions of Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” (April 2015)
Smoke N Mangos – One Bottle Short (Nov. 2014)
blogging/Thought Leadership
Less than 100 Days until Election Day, APIAVote Blog (Jul. 2020)
COVID-19 updates to the 2020 Elections, APIAVote Blog (Jul. 2020)
Honoring Representative John Lewis: A Dive into the Voting Rights Act, APIAVote Blog (Jul. 2020)
How Do I Count in The 2020 Census?, APIAVote Blog (Apr. 2020)
Stay Inside, Vote Absentee, APIAVote Blog (Mar. 2020)
Meet Our Trainers: Elizabeth OuYang, APIAVote Blog (Jan. 2020)
New Research Shows Asian American Women Are Electable, APIAVote Blog (Nov. 2019)
Voting Reform and Historic Wins for New AAPI Legislators after 2019 Elections, APIAVote Blog (Nov. 2019)
Youth Ambassador Summit Inspires AAPI Student Leaders, APIAVote Blog (Oct. 2019)
The Data Driven Influencer Strategy, PublicRelay Blog (Apr. 2018)
Make the Most of your Messaging and Campaigns Data, PublicRelay Blog (Mar. 2018)
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Interview with Music Journalism Insider on my newsletter, the b-side (Feb. 2021)
How Kamala Harris or Tammy Duckworth as VP could impact the Asian American and Pacific Islander vote, NBC News (Aug. 2020)
Just Where is the Asian American Women’s Vote?, Zora magazine (Feb. 2020, digital)
YWCA releases #YWomenVote report in briefing for Congress, APIAVote Blog (Dec. 2019, digital)
Las Vegas census event aims to boost Asian-American involvement, Las Vegas Review-Journal, (June 2019, digital)
Some Asian Americans are excited about Andrew Yang. Others? Not so much., NBC Asian America, (June 2019, digital)
Trump could be turning Asian Americans into reliable Democratic voters, Vox, (May 2019, digital)