
Written work
Bella is a narrative and audio journalist. During graduate school, she worked for Vulture and New York Magazine as a writing intern. She wrote daily stories on internet culture, the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, and more. Bella also wrote a 5,000 word explainer on the Miranda Sings’ controversies, which was the top story on Vulture’s and NY Mag’s websites. She’s been a staff writer for publications, like DIG MAG, EdSource, The Daily Forty-Niner, Oakland North and Aspire Magazine. Currently, she freelances stories about culture (on and offline), the literary industry, and the environment for Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine, Vulture, BlueDot Living, and more.

Vulture
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The Controversy Around Colleen Ballinger, a.k.a. Miranda Sings, Explained
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Get in, Losers, We’re Making TikToks About Girlhood
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Brooke Averick Has Never Liked Anything a Normal Amount
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The Taylor Swiftification of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'
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'The Ultimatum'’s Roxanne Kaiser Loves Being a Girlboss
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Movies, TV Shows, and Productions Affected by the SAG-AFTRA Strike
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On 'Heartstopper,' Everything Goes Down in the DMs
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Release the 'Barbie' Fart-Opera Cut
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DJ Crazy Times Replaces Biljana Electronica on ‘Planet of the Bass’
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Gravity Takes Down Boston Police Officer
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'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Season Two’s Slow Burner Was Worth the Wait
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Celebrities Have Labor Disputes Just Like Us
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We’ll Have 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Forever & Always
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What Else Is in Mattel’s Toy Box?
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The ‘Bill Hader Dancing To’ Meme Is Back, Baby
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'Succession,' 'The Last of Us,' and 'The White Lotus' Sweep the 2023 Emmy Nominations
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Bad Bleep Addison Rae Releases Her Lost Album
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Lil Tay Apparently Isn’t Dead
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'Barbie' Wins Box-Office Beach-Off Against The Dark Knight
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Bad Bunny’s Spending Un Verano Con Cassandro
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Geriatric Singer Miley Cyrus Releasing a New Single
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It’s Almost 'Gilded Age' Fall Starring Hot Girl Gummer
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Zack Snyder’s 'Rebel Moon' Is About Hot Girls With Big Weapons
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'The Ultimatum' Season Two Is Marching Down the Aisle
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Natasha Lyonne, Kathy Griffin, and More Honor Pee-wee Herman
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Loki Whips His Hair Back and Forth in Season-Two Trailer
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Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar Witnessed Her Marriage
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'The Marvels,' 'Harley Quinn,' and More Trailers From San Diego Comic-Con 2023
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Harry Styles Leaves His House to Join the Circus
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Miranda Sings’s Remaining Tour Stops Are Canceled
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Do Taylor’s Red Lips and Rosy Cheeks Mean '1989' Is Next?

Bluedot Living
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Taking Care of Turtles
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Pushing to End Plastic Pollution in the Pacific
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Shades of Green

Oakland North and The Oaklandside
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Afro-Peruvian dance in Oakland: ‘We are making sure the tradition is still alive for future generations’
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Drunken Film Fest delivers a dozen original films a night in Oakland bars
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Oakland museum honors school shooting victims in Día de los Muertos ofrenda
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At this week’s Bay Area Queer Zine Fest, artists sell, swap and inspire

EdSource
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Cancer diagnosis takes high-school trauma to a whole new level
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California colleges are leaping onto the cannabis bandwagon
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Long Beach City College offers students safety while sleeping in their cars
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New law to bring CalFresh food benefits to more college students
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Getting the Covid shot: California State University students react to vaccine mandate
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Covid relief for California community college students depends on the school they attend
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Community college students make the most of Covid-19 federal aid
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California community college adjuncts are pushing to get paid for time-consuming pandemic switch to online
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Colleges prepare for incoming freshmen with high school learning loss
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Looking ahead to college freshman year, students welcome help

DIG MAG
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The Art of Sustainability
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Renaissance of Readers
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Best Books for Cuffing Season
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The Dark Side of Twitch
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Swiping Right, in a New Way
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Say Yes to the Debt
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Elise Bryant’s Happily Ever After(s)
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An Open Book
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Meme Movement
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The Clip
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Thoughts from a Woman in Speech

The Daily Forty-Niner
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Students spill the tea about Long Beach State University’s COVID-19 protocols
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Long Beach parents give their thoughts on COVID-19 pediatric vaccines
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How Pigeon’s Roller Skate Shop owner Shayna Meikle fell in love with skating
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Four vaccinated CSULB students express mixed opinions on the COVID-19 booster shot
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Isabel Patterson Child Development Center has yet to reopen to full capacity amidst staff shortage
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What are students listening to at CSULB?
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CSULB students express mixed reactions to proposed fall vaccine mandate
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Fine Feathers Kombucha’s commitment to sustainability
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Alumna Brittany Olivia Logan’s path to the opera leads to recent wins
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CSULB student finds her voice, releasing new music and directing a music video
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Wells Fargo locations at CSULB closing
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The only women in the room
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Black-owned businesses in Long Beach
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Elise Bryant, author of “Happily Ever Afters,” discusses inspiration behind debut novel at Long Beach virtual event
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Long Beach in style
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Activist Loretta Ross speaks about reproductive justice as a human right at virtual event
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CSULB students react to the Biden-Harris administration’s executive actions thus far

ASPIRE Magazine
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2022 edition
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2021 edition