I’m Ella Feldman, a bilingual freelance journalist based in New York City. Currently, I’m pursuing a master’s at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY through December 2025.

My reporting—about independent film and music, cultural trends, Argentine politics, abortion restrictions, queer history and more—has appeared in Washington City Paper, Smithsonian Magazine, DCist, Austin American-Statesman, Houston Public Media and Courthouse News Service. Prior to freelancing, I was Washington City Paper’s last in-print City Lights editor.

In 2021, I graduated from Rice University, where I wrote my thesis on gender-neutral Spanish, edited the Rice Thresher’s features section and spent a semester studying journalism in Rabat, Morocco. In 2023, I spent a year freelancing and teaching English in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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