I conducted a series of interviews with the Somali Bantu refugee in Pittsburgh for Public Source. This is the first installment, the story of Fatuma Muya and Dadiri Malambo.
Making it as A Somali Bantu in Pittsburgh
Are Montessori floor beds the answer to our bedtime troubles?
This reported piece was interesting for me to write, as my family approached child sleep from a more traditional perspective. Read about what I learned here. Photo courtesy of Samantha Booth.
When is it no longer okay to post photos of your kids without permission?
A bit of self-reflection, a bit of interviewing...this piece for Romper was fun to write!
The comfort cardi I wore to meet my children
My contribution to the Mom Jeans series for Romper can be found here. While many women wrote about postpartum clothing, I focused on my favorite sweater through our early days with our children when they were placed with us for adoption.
Why Hollywood Gets Adoption So, So Wrong…
This piece for Romper focuses on typical adoption tropes in the entertainment industry, and how recent shows like NBC's This is Us are challenging those. Please give it a read here.
Four Women Targeted by White Supremacist for being “Race Traitors”
In this mixed media piece I completed with visual expert Ryan Loew, I highlight how myself and three other white women were targeted by a local white supremacist for our multiracial families, or support of people of color. The key in this series here is not to show the victimization of white women, but to... Continue Reading →
My series among top-read in Pittsburgh for 2017
My series on the Somali Bantu was featured among the top-read stories for 2017. PublicSource is a non-profit publication producing quality investigative journalism for Pittsburgh, and I was honored to be included among so many great journalists. You can find the complete list for 2017 here.
I fully embraced my free time, once I got some.
My first piece as a regular contributing writer for Twiniversity.com, a site devoted parenting multiples. Once all of my children entered school, what did I do with my free time?
Leaving Our White Church: Soul Searching Series for Splinter News
I wrote this piece as a personal essay, which really resonated with a lot of white evangelicals leaving their faith. It was shared over 10,000 times on The Root, Jezebel, and Splinter News. I received hundreds of emails from around the world with similar stories. I am trying to find a way to tell those... Continue Reading →
Somali Bantu couple’s far-flung web of loved ones makes resettlement in Pittsburgh difficult
The third in a month-long series about Pittsburgh's Somali Bantu community, tribal elder Abdi's story of the shattering of his family can be found here.
