About Me
An Arizona native, I moved to Philly for school and fell in love with the music there. I got a passion for sharing music through student radio, which carried into my work-study position at the World Cafe from WXPN. I began writing for the WQHS blog and contributing for The Key from WXPN. I wrote about film and TV for 34th Street Magazine for one semester before I was offered the position of Music Section Editor, where I learned about leading a team and helping writers produce their best content. In the summer of 2019 I joined Shore Fire Media as their RealArts@Penn intern. In the Fall of 2019, after writing an essay for the Penn Gazette, I was brought on as their editorial assistant intern. I currently am studying English at the University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2020.
Outside of classes, I am a brother of Penn's premier service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, previous usher at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and an avid movie and concertgoer. Proud half-Navajo and Taylor Swift defender.
My Favorite Articles (By Me)
it’s Wednesday, and Eden Harris (E '19) is peeling an orange. She removes the rind and picks at the pith until each slice is clean, then breaks them in half to eat them. We’re talking at the Penn First (First–Generation Low–Income) Town Hall, which is far less formal than it sounds. Today, we’re making lip scrubs out of brown sugar and coconut oil. There are apples and oranges for people to eat on the table, and everyone is making idle chit–chat.
Upon listening to Gillian Welch’s “Everything Is Free,” one might imagine that the slow, fingerpicked guitar and subtle harmonies were recorded far before the internet, on a tape in some far-off corner of America. In reality, Time (the Revelator) was recorded in 2001 in Studio B in Nashville, shortly after Welch and her longtime musical partner David Rawlings had been booted from their previous label and she began her own, Acony, in retaliation.
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