bio
I'm a very general assignment freelancer who's written most recently about victims of repeat violence — trauma bay recidivists — and the violence intervention specialists who visit them at their hospital beds to try to steer them towards a different lifestyle; expanding the role of military medics in civilian medicine; solving the homeless crisis with tiny homes in Detroit; Elon Musk’s tunnel vision; chromatic harmonica master Toots Thielemans (his final interview); synthetic meat, the Tampa Bay Times, and master bread baker Mark Furstenberg.
My 2017 piece from Nigeria on the challenges faced by Africa's most populous country in rolling out a national plan to prevent newborn umbilical cord infections won first place in the Association of Health Care Journalists' Awards for Excellence in the public health category. Travel was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Currently
Freelance Journalist writing for Health Affairs, The Washington Post, Politico and others.
Previously
Communications Director. U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman.
Lobby Editor and Columnist. Roll Call.
Lobby and Congressional Reporter. Legal Times.
Reporter. St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times)
Hong Kong sub-editor. Agence France-Presse.
Montreal bureau chief. Reuters.
FORMAL EDUCATION
University of North Carolina, BA in English Literature,
Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), MIPP in African Studies,