A brief overview of my work

  • Indigenous farmers reclaim time-honored techniques

    Growing traditions in northern New Mexico. (Published in High Country News)

  • Does ‘vabbing’ work? The truth about vaginal pheromones.

    We talked to a pheromone expert about vagina perfume. (Really.)

    (Published in Popular Science)

  • For the Love of the Buffalo

    The celebration of America’s National Mammal brings up both a dark past and a brighter future thanks to the Smithsonian’s conservation work

  • Community Archeology Helps Bridge Gap Between Science and Tradition

    Researchers and Indigenous people teamed up to use oral legends and science to discover an archeology site

  • The most powerful and complex space telescope created by humankind, as photographed during assembly in TKYEAR, has been launched into space. We now wait for data to be processed and analyzed. [Credit: NASA]

    Looking up in the sky, seeking answers of the beginning

    Galactic archeologists expect the James Webb Space Telescope to be a game changer for their field

  • Flight degrees delayed by instructor shortage

    An Investigative piece about the aeronautics program at Kent State University. This story made an impact on my college campus and since it was published, the official length of the program has been changed in order to reflect how long the program has taken most students to complete it.

  • Mariah Gladstone (right) and Sean Sherman (left) speak to a panel at the Annual Native American Nutrition Conference in Lake Prior Minnesota on Sept. 17, 2019. (Photo by Lyric Aquino)

    Indigenous food sovereignty movement gains traction

    “Indigenous communities, they were food sovereign, everything they did was a community based food system, and these were disrupted.”

  • Black History Month: A Kent State legacy

    A deep dive through archives of Kent State University and firsthand accounts of the development of the nationally celebrated month.

    I did a lot of research for this article and was thrilled to hear the history behind this iconic worldly month of recognition. I will always be proud of this piece.