Essays/Commentary
“What’s Your Support System Like?” Romper, June 2025
“My Love-Hate Relationship with Lovevery,” Romper, February 2025
“Redefining Success,” Washington Independent Review of Books, July 2021
Journalism
Snopes
'Noise and Confusion': Fake News in Ecuador, February 2018
Is 'Covfefe' a Word in Arabic? Yiddish? 'Antidiluvian'? June 2017
The Atlantic
To Be a Guerrilla, and a Woman, in Colombia, September 2016
There is No Plan B for the FARC Deal, October 2016
The Guardian
'They come, they photograph us, but they don't help': How ecotourism in the Amazon shortchanges the locals, March 2015
Smithsonian
Photo: Megan Alpert, 2015
How Colombia’s Failed Peace Treaty Could Wreak Havoc on Its Diversity-Rich Ecosystems, November 2016
Refugees Deeply
U.S. Refugee Groups Grapple With 'Crushing Human Cost' of Trump Order, February 2017
Foreign Policy
Politics Roils Colombia's Tentative Peace Deal with the FARC, July 2016
Killings of Environmental Defenders Surged in 2015, June 2016
Dalai Lama: Those Who Cause Bloodshed Are Not 'Genuine' Practitioners of Islam, June 2016
From El Chapo to The Snail, Is It Time to Stop Celebrating the Arrests of Drug Kingpins? May 2016
It Takes Two Dead Activists for Banks to Suspend Funding for Honduran Project, March 2016
Why Was This Prominent Honduran Activist Murdered in Her Own Home? March 2016
Why Did One of America’s Most Controversial Immigration Detention Facilities Get Even Bigger? November 2015
Guernica Daily
Justice and Peace in the Shrinking Forest (Parts One and Two), July 2015
Earth Island Journal
Interview with Kichwa Leader Franco Viteri, Autumn 2015
Vice Munchies
Spreading the Kimchi and K-Drama Gospel in Ecuador, March 2015