This piece is a love letter to the Mojave, written about my first time traveling through the desert to get home. It is a reflective, explosive piece, and the process of writing it gave me insight on the ways memory and society impact our experiences of a place.

I had the immense pleasure of interviewing a fellow Rancho Cucamonga resident, Jason Soriano, about the ways he uses gardening practices and traditional ecological knowledge to stay connected to his Filipino roots. This piece let me practice a fascinating perspective shift from the Soriano backyard to the world at large, and then back down again.

This piece blossomed from a conversation I had with my friend, the poet Brady Sullivan. I got to interview him about art, travel, and what it means to connect with nature in such a disparate climate - politically, socially, environmentally.

This is a research essay I wrote for Stanford's Advanced Program in Writing and Rhetoric, in which I introduce some fascinating studies on the psychological impacts of stories of nature experience on college students. In the research process, I also conducted my own qualitative research and analysis, interviewing Stanford students about their experiences with nature.