About me

I'm a radio and podcast producer based in Seattle, where I've worked on a variety of reporting, broadcast, and podcast projects for NPR member station KUOW. I currently work on the station’s flagship local broadcast program, “Soundside," where my favorite segments range from non-narrated audio profiles to field documentaries. My stories have won awards for sound design and documentary work.

Originally from Grand Junction, Colorado, I cut my teeth working on small and large-scale projects at NPR member stations across the Pacific Northwest and at NPR's Story Lab, where I helped pilot NPR's "Shortwave" and "Louder Than a Riot" podcasts. In addition to my background in public radio, I work as a freelance sound designer and producer, writing original scores for California-based podcast house StudioToBe and producing projects from the hit true-crime series "Small Town Dicks" to the iHeartMedia limited-documentary series "Lords of Soccer."

Outside of my professional work I greatly enjoy hiking state and national parks, likely clogging the trail to stop and grab my 100th recording of trees and creeks. I write on a variety of subjects, from the fallout of the 20th-century nuclear family to the existential dread of growing up on Facebook. I’m in the midst of producing a life-long project called Listen Closely — an experimental “podcast vlog” — and I recently began releasing an independent, year long reporting project on uranium mining in Western Colorado, titled “Boom Town: A Uranium Story.” My favorite icebreaker is that I spent four summers touring the United States as part of a professional drum and bugle corp (“Like the NBA of marching band”). I hope to one day play a marathon game of D&D and I once got 3rd place in a college poetry slam.

Cut the Tape

“Cut the Tape” is my SoundCloud, where I publish music from fully-produced vocal songs to mix tapes and beat tapes. These songs are longer, and are generally made to be standalone tracks.

I also produce a lot of music dedicated to sound design and audio story scoring. You can find (and use!) those tracks on my FreeSound page, which you can find by clicking the button below.

 

Medium blog

I also write a variety of blogs, from the lessons of Kierkegaard’s early work on irony, to the origins of anime’s surge in the United States, to travel writing and essays on family. You can find my blog by clicking the button below.

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