Raised in Brooklyn. Collected books about animals and distant places. Weekends hiking in upstate New York, a summer building trails in the Rockies. Gap Year: taught kids to ski in Crested Butte, Colorado. Long hair phase. Studied at Brown. A semester in Ecuador, an international relations degree. Worked as a caretaker for endangered gibbons in Southern California. Moved to San Francisco during the first dot-com boom. Got a job in PR. Didn’t get any stock options. Backpacked across Asia for a year. Invented a dessert sushi in Laos that was immortalized in Lonely Planet. Professional journalism began. Assignments involved immigration protests on the Mexican border, living on the world's most remote inhabited island, and drifting with sea ice aboard a polar research vessel through the Arctic Ocean. Writing and photography appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and numerous other publications. Joined the faculty of The School of The New York Times, an immersive journalism program for high school students.
Branched out. Co-founded Camping to Connect, a BIPOC-led nonprofit organization that guides young men of color from urban environments into nature, fostering leadership, self-awareness, and social connection. Produced an award-winning short documentary film about it. Created global events with Portals, an immersive technology that brings together diverse voices from across the world for transformative dialogues. Launched a public art project, RickshawNYC, a hand-painted cycle rickshaw from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Giving people the opportunity to see and engage with the world differently.