Journalist

MFA Products of Design

Education

BS, cum laude, University of Texas, Austin


Professional experience includes

Contributing writer, Design Observer, The New York Times Magazine; contributor, Fast Company; columnist, Slate


Author

Buying In: What We Buy and Who We Are; Letters from New Orleans; I’m With the Brand: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are. Co-author, Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money and Business. Co-editor, Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things


Publications include

Wall Street Journal, GQ, Fortune, New Republic, Details, Washington Post, Wired, The Nation, New York magazine, The New York Times, Money, Adbusters, Texas Monthly