Twilight is a journalist and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times, NBC News, NPR’s The Salt, the Guardian, BillMoyers.com, Food & Wine, Slate, Mother Jones, Eater, Gastronomica, Modern Farmer, and Grist, where she served as the food editor. She worked as an editor for Civil Eats from 2014-2024, as the managing editor, senior editor, and executive editor.

She was raised on an organic coffee farm in Hawaii, has a deep love of gardening and botany, and has long been interested in stories that ask hard questions and engage readers with the natural world. She is dedicated to lifting up less-heard voices, telling stories that help address inequity, and illuminating real solutions to the climate crisis.

She is currently working on the Climate Equity Reporting Project at Berkeley Journalism, where she is pursuing a series of stories about greenhouse gas reduction efforts in California through an equity lens.

Stories she has shepherded and edited have won awards from Covering Climate Now, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Northern California, North American Agricultural Journalists (NAAJ), Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), Indigenous Media Awards, and the James Beard Foundation. Another story she edited was featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In 2022 she also received an SPJ award for an op-ed about climate and agriculture. 

Twilight was a co-host of the Just Food Podcast for the Berkeley Food Institute. She has also moderated and spoken on panels and conducted live interviews for Food Tank, Climate One,  SPUR, Bioneers, Open Restaurant, and more. She was also featured in the podcast The Wise Unknown.

Read (and subscribe!) her climate-focused substack newsletter, The Window, here.