I tell stories to keep people alive. And sometimes, those stories remind us why we’re alive in the first place.
I’m a journalist, conflict reporter, and storyteller. My work involves war zones, displaced communities, and spaces most people only encounter through headlines or stereotypes. I’m less interested in breaking news than I am in what happens after the news outlets are gone; how people keep living, moving, laughing, and surviving when the cameras usually leave.
Like I said above, I believe stories can keep people alive. Not metaphorically, but literally. Stories preserve dignity, interrupt indifference, hell…they’re how we even explain history. Stories remind us that people are not problems to be solved, but lives to be honored.
That belief has taken me into spaces often labeled fringe and unholy, like sitting with Death Doulas, interviewing freedom fighters in Syria, or spending a week in the Appalachian mountains with snake-handling preachers. Other times, it’s put me in hard, but necessary places, like interviewing the Grand Wizard of the KKK, or sleeping in a bomb shelter in Israel.
Whether I’m filming, editing, or recording an interview, my goal is the same: to find the voices that have something to say to let us know how the world really works.
Image shot from my studio in Portland, Oregon.
I live in Portland, Oregon. When I’m not in the field, I’m part of Heretic Coffee Co., a small nonprofit coffee shop built around the idea that care should be practical, not theoretical. You may have hard of us from our SNAP Breakfast program that made global news in late 2025.
If you head through a door in the back of Heretic Coffee, you’d make your way into my studio, a 300 square foot space where I spent most of my days editing, creating, and finding new stories.
Heretic, my studio, and my journalism work keeps me tethered to this world. It reminds me that the same dignity I chase across borders is needed just as urgently on my own block.
More than anything, I hope my work gives you a new found sense of awe and wonder not only for your life, but the lives around you.