I got to join the great team of podcasters at Atlas Obscura and Witness Docs to produce four listener voicemail episodes.
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This self-paced, behind-the-scenes video class is available now through National Geographic.
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My new episode with 99pi uses historical research and personal stories to show that the Twin Cities skyways are more than just intriguing pieces of cold-weather architecture; they are an architecture of division. And some people want them torn down—both because of their divisive design, and because of what they’ve done to harm the streets below.
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This article tells the historical tale of one of my favorite Fulbright-year findings: an 1800s railway line that was chartered specifically to carry coffins and mourners.
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This historical, first-person essay, published in the Wildsam Twin Cities Field Guide, explores how Minneapolis’s skyways were a superimposition of a white, suburban fantasy onto downtown—and how they often didn’t serve the city.
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My new 45-minute audio documentary uses the stories of women of 100 years ago to show how Minnesota’s temperance movement set the stage for our women’s suffrage movement. But it also shows how temperance leaders—and, by proxy, many early suffragists—largely failed to engage women who were not wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant.
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My most recent episode with 99pi tells why this South Minneapolis apartment building used to be called “The Infantorium,” and how premature babies and the incubators that kept them alive were amusement park sideshows for over four decades.
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On this special All Saints’ Day episode of the Fulbright Program’s 22.33 podcast, I shared about my international travels and the kindness of strangers.
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Read about a new species of beetle discovered in a NYC cemetery—and the forgotten horticultural history of cemeteries that makes them the perfect place to find new life.
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My personal essay about how my love for cemeteries shapes my travelers. Text online now!
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