I’m a designer, writer, radio producer, educator and creative strategist hungry for a good story and a great sandwich.

I’m a designer, writer, radio producer, educator and creative strategist hungry for a good story and a great sandwich.

Currently based in Southern Ontario, I work as the Director of Operations & Communications for a JUNO-nominated singer-songwriter and public speaker. I’m also a regular writer, producer and host for CBC Podcasts, and have my own show about queer origin stories called You Made Me Queer! on the Sonar Network.

Prior to this I spent four years in Tokyo as an international director and education manager for Peace Boat, a Japan-based NGO/NPO and a steering committee member of 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ICAN.

In 2016, I graduated from the Master of Design program at York University with a focus on open-access storytelling in urban public space. I also hold certificates in teaching, business/consulting (York University) and TEFL/TESOL (ITTP Prague) and a Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance with high honours (Sheridan College).

As a designer and creative strategist, I’ve worked for clients including CBC, Symbl Cannabis, Canadian Stage, Tokyo Metro, JINS Eyewear, ECC Foreign Language Institute, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Design Exchange, OPHEA, Caravan Stage Company, Buddies in Bad Times, Art of Time Ensemble, York University, and the NDP, as well as many artists, organizations and entrepreneurs.

As a writer, I’ve created content for CBC Podcasts, the Japan Times, NAVITIME Japan, Metropolis Magazine, the Puritan, and NOW Magazine.

First off, I just want to say how nice it is to get to spend this time with you out here on the open road. I mean, would you look at this landscape? It’s just – I’m not religious, you know this about me, but – if heaven looked like this, I wouldn’t mind ending up there one day. And to have this kind of one-on-one time with you… let’s just say I’m not taking it for granted.

[sips gas station coffee, grimaces, nods in acknowledgment of its unapologetic flavour]

Listen, in case we don’t make it back from this little pilgrimage of ours, there are some things I need to get off of my chest. According to my website, I’m a designer, writer, radio producer, educator and creative strategist hungry for a good story and a great sandwich. But that’s the short list. Once I was the personal chauffeur for jazz musician Branford Marsalis. Another time, I performed selections from Hamilton on a stranger’s lawn for her 50th birthday. I’ve also been a go-go boy.

[watches hawk make lazy circles in the sky]

Currently based in Southern Ontario, I work as the Director of Operations & Communications for a JUNO-nominated singer-songwriter and public speaker. I’m also a regular writer, producer and host for CBC Podcasts, and have my own show about queer origin stories called You Made Me Queer! on the Sonar Network.

Prior to this I spent four years in Tokyo as an international director and education manager for Peace Boat, a Japan-based NGO/NPO and a steering committee member of 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ICAN. I had the chance to live and work closely with survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with an inspiring roster of progressive politicians, activists, and artists. It was the hardest and most humbling “job” I’ve ever had.

[adjusts FM radio in search of a station, finds none]

In 2016, I graduated from the Master of Design program at York University with a focus on open-access storytelling in urban public space. I also hold certificates in teaching, business/consulting (York University) and TEFL/TESOL (ITTP Prague) and a Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance with high honours (Sheridan College). And I once listened to an entire podcast series about the Heaven’s Gate cult in one day and still find myself wondering exactly who and what those folks were thinking about when they strapped on their Nike Decades in anticipation of their fabulous trip to the stars.

If you want to vet me – and I won’t hold it against you, after what happened to you last time – I’ll give you a boost: as a designer and creative strategist, I’ve worked for clients including JOMO, CBC, COCOSOLIS, Symbl Cannabis, Canadian Stage, Tokyo Metro, JINS Eyewear, ECC Foreign Language Institute, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Design Exchange, OPHEA, Caravan Stage Company, Buddies in Bad Times, Art of Time Ensemble, York University, and the NDP, as well as many artists, organizations and entrepreneurs.

As a writer, I’ve created content for CBC Podcasts, the Japan Times, NAVITIME Japan, Metropolis Magazine, the Puritan, and NOW Magazine.

Finally, in case you make it back and I don’t – no, no, let me finish – I’ve buried my most precious possession in an economy-size can of Folger’s coffee under the southern on-ramp to the Golden Gate Bridge. You’ll need a good shovel, but if you can find it, it’s yours.

And I guess that’s everything you need to know about me.

What about you?