About me

I’m a journalist and author born and raised in New York, and for more than a decade I’ve written about the people, technologies, and ideas shaping the future. I’ve reported for and led editorial teams at Wired, The Athletic, and Business Insider, covering everything from autonomous vehicles and electric aviation to Formula 1 and the engineers behind the systems we rely on every day.

I now work at Amazon, where I lead feature storytelling through deeply reported, narrative features about the people, inventions, and ideas shaping the company’s future.

I’m the author of Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car, an award-winning inside account of the self-driving industry, and Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering (W.W. Norton, 2026), which explores the hidden world of product testing and the people pushing machines, medicines, and models to their limits to keep the world safe.

I graduated cum laude from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where I studied history and French. After years in newsrooms across the country, I now live in New York’s Hudson Valley with my husband, daughter, and dog.