Editor at New York magazine, where he writes about various things and create online videos of various kinds for the magazine and its various blogs. He also occasionally take photos for them.
In the past, he has done writing, video, and audio for a bunch of other media outlets: The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, Vice, WNYC, NY1, The New York Sun, and WBAI, to name a few.
Abraham graduated from Harvard in 2008 and lived in New York City since then. But he was born and raised in Oak Park, IL and lived in Seoul for a while (he was working on myundergraduate thesis, which was about nationalism at a South Korean high school).
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