I am a photographer and multimedia producer based in Washington, D.C. who embraces the evolution of media and wants to help shape the future of visual journalism. In December of 2008, I joined USA TODAY as a multimedia producer in their design department. Previously, I was the director of photography for the Lawrence Journal-World, where I directed a team of photographers and visual journalists responsible for all the photographic content for “the newspaper of the future” (as described by The New York Times, 2005). In 2007, I spearheaded a multimedia project which won the Associate Press Managing Editors Award for Online Convergence. I worked as a freelance photographer and multimedia producer for nonprofit organizations in New York City in 2005 and taught Bronx youth how to make multimedia for the internet.

I graduated with a journalism degree from Kansas University in the winter of 2002. After graduation, I loaded into a 1986 Chevrolet cargo van and drove to Chiapas, Mexico where I lived and worked with a Zapatista community deep in the Lacandon Jungle.

Building things for Wordpress, a rapidly growing online publishing platform, has also occupied much of my mental real estate recently. Check out what I’ve been up to at www.graphpaperpress.com.

My Philosophy

• Change is inevitable. Adapt.
• Focus on the content, not the delivery.
• Don’t forget the neediest.
• Well done is better than well said.
• Quality rules.

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