Raised in Brooklyn. Collected books about animals and far-off 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 got immortalized in Lonely Planet.

That’s when journalism began. Assignments took me to immigration protests along the Mexican border, the world’s most remote inhabited island, and the Arctic Ocean in midwinter—aboard a polar research vessel drifting through sea ice. My writing and photography have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and other outlets. I joined the faculty of The School of The New York Times, an immersive journalism summer program for high school students.

Then I branched out. Co-founded Camping to Connect, a BIPOC-led program tackling teen social isolation through deep, in-person experiences in nature. We guide young men from underserved communities into the outdoors for immersive nature-based experiences grounded in emotional vulnerability, mentorship, and brotherhood. Produced an award-winning documentary about it. Created global education opportunities through Portals: immersive spaces that connect learners in face-to-face dialogue with peers, artists, and changemakers around the world. 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.