I write essays, reported stories, and fiction exploring themes of identity, race, gender, Gen-Z, politics, and culture. Here are some of my recent favorites.

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cultural criticism​

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Teen Vogue: In Never Have I Ever Season Two, Flawed Brown Girls Are the Point.

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Electric Literature: I Love Sally Rooney's Novels, But They Aren't Written For Me.

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NYLON: When Will Women Get A Break from Hollywood's Serial Killer Obsession? 

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Teen Vogue: Why White Women Need to Stop Using the Word Karen

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personal essays

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Teen Vogue: How Toni Morrison Transformed Me as a South Asian Writer. 

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Washington Post's The Lily: Centering my Female Friendships is a Feminist Act

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HuffPost: How Having a Name That Nobody Can Pronounce Taught Me Who I Really Am.

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Washington Post's The Lily: I'm Seventeen. Here's Why I'm Participating in the Women's March. 

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HuffPost: I Led My High School's Walkout to Demand Gun Reform. Here's What I Learned.

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reported

 

Washington Post's The Lily: Interview with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Star of Mindy Kaling's Never Have I Ever 

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San Francisco Chronicle: These Bay Area artists spent the past year creating. Now their pandemic babies are ready to be born.

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Refinery29: How Youth of Color Are Reimagining the Anti-Gun Violence Movement.

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San Francisco Chronicle: 'We're Playing the Long Game': Young Bay Area organizers see a society without police as their ultimate goal

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San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Indian Americans mobilize to send aid to COVID-affected families in India

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San Francisco Chronicle: The COVID recession was harder on women. When will they rebound?

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San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. Chinatown patrols met with hope, ambivalence amid attacks, bigotry against Asians

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San Francisco Chronicle: Teens lead hundreds to rally against anti-Asian bigotry in Oakland

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Stanford Daily: Inside the Weeks-Long Human Rights Strike at Stanford-Affiliated Hotel

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Stanford Daily: With Campus Visits Cancelled, Minority Admits Struggle to Imagine Their Place at Stanford

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Teen Vogue: For Pulse Shooting Survivor Stephanie Kersten, Dance is a Source of Healing 

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creative

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Refinery29: Dear Mom and Dad (Slam Poetry performance with Saida Dahir + Sam Getachew)

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Brown Girl Magazine: The Banyan Blooms (Short story)

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