About Me

I'm an author studying English at the University of Central Florida; I've been published by Cypress Dome Literary Magazine and The Borgen Project. I have experience in library science, the digital humanities, communications, and filmography. I hope my work proves entertaining! 

My Latest Work

Freedom Farm Orlando: Helping Fight Food Insecurity at a Local Level

It’s a Saturday morning. My alarm chimes from across the room, the sky is still grey and sleepy (just like me), and I have a pair of rubber boots waiting for me at the door. I fight the comfort of my bed and begin to get ready for my morning, donning jeans with dirty stains decorating my knees and a ratty old t-shirt. In thirty minutes, I’ll be driving out to a small church, where I’ll join friends and like-minded peers in an impressive garden, weeding and composting until noon. This is the Peop...

Who Am I?: The Influence of Mahmoud Darwish on Palestine - The Borgen Project

What will I do? What will I do without exile and a long night that stares at the water? Mahmoud Darwish asks in his poem “Who Am I, Without Exile?” The poem, published in 2008 in The Butterfly’s Burden, is a sentiment explored by Darwish throughout much of his work.
The master lyrical poet constantly asks for answers to who he is; however, Mahmoud Darwish never stood alone and never failed to call out to the Palestinian people he wrote for. Though Darwish sadly passed away in 2008, his work rema...

Examining Child Marriage in Russia - The Borgen Project

In 2015, the headline “Chechen Police Chief Marries Teen Bride Amid Mounting Scandal” appeared in The Moscow Times, before appearing in The Guardian. The image at the top of the article displays a young girl, simply 17, next to the groom, Nazhud Guchigov. When the story first broke, reporters stated that Guchigov was 57, but later amended this to 46. Guchigov’s marriage was a hot topic for several reasons; allegedly, Guchigov utilized his authority as a police chief to intimidate his bride’s par...

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