Poet heart, journalist brain. Writing helps me sort the two. Born in Argentina, grew up in New Jersey, New Yorker since 1995. I am a cat and a dog person. I still don’t know how to whistle.

The Em Dash is where I hold both grief and joy, ambition and authenticity, the streets of Manhattan and the quiet of the Catskills. I'm writing a literary memoir about my journey through immigrant inheritance, addiction, and double lives — moving from shame to integration, from hiding to wholeness. This is my work toward a post-shame world, where worth isn't earned through respectability, but found in embracing all the selves we've had to become.

I write for people who refuse that binary. Who want to give more f-cks, not fewer. Who understand that beauty heals, that saying grace over the broken world is an act of resistance, and that the work of becoming yourself never quite finishes.

I’m a former media executive (WSJ, TED), current associate professor/director of the Master’s in Engagement Journalism engagement journalism professor at CUNY, media therapist, ordained interfaith minister, and author of the poetry chapbook Saber/Knowing — always a writer trying to integrate my poet heart with my journalist brain.

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