I write about culture.
Mostly, I write about people.
I spent fifteen years in the Navy and the Intelligence Community figuring out what people were really doing. Now I write about why.
Features & culture writer · Washington, D.C.
About
I’m a features and culture writer in Washington, D.C., finishing a master’s in journalism at Georgetown. I write about people — cosplayers, converts, a nun who has kept the same bookstore for fifty years — and it’s the why that pulls me in.
That earlier work was targeting, network analysis, identity intelligence — briefing people who had to make decisions before the information was finished. The stakes were higher and the writing was worse. What carried over is smaller than it sounds: don’t mistake what people say for what they mean.
What actually fascinates me is people — what they do, what they believe, and why they do it. Politicians, priests, cosplayers, terrorists: I’m after the same thing every time. Why.
Washington, D.C. · M.S. Journalism candidate, Georgetown University.
Selected Writing
Recent work
Spot Report · Culture
Miles from Capitol Hill, 20,000 cosplayers descend on National Harbor
20,000 cosplayers take over a Maryland hotel for one weekend a year, then vanish. Reported and shot from the floor of Katsucon 2026.
National Harbor, Md. · February 2026Read
Investigative Feature
In January, one of them broke: a Potomac investigation
A 72-inch interceptor pipe collapses and sends 243 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac — exposing how Washington quietly still runs on infrastructure laid in 1863, with no public plan to replace it.
Washington, D.C. · April 2026Read the investigation
Profile
Old Town's quiet habit: a Daughter of St. Paul keeps the door open
A nun who has spent five decades behind a bookstore counter — and gathered 82,000 Instagram followers — on media as ministry, and the searchers she waits for.
Alexandria, Va. · May 2026Read
Contact
Have a story, an assignment, or a tip?
I’m open to features, freelance assignments, and reporting work — especially the stories about people that don’t obviously look like stories yet.