Now

Right now (as of: 4/2/2025), I am:

• Producing freelance podcasts for clients including National Public Media, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Free Space, and two new shows currently in development. Contact me if you’re interested in discussing a project!

• Writing the first draft of a novel (following Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s StoryBoard workshop cohort, Haley Jakobson’s Writing With Confidence class, and Maggie Stiefvater’s Writing the Raven Cycle class).

• Participating in StoryStudio’s YA Novel-in-a-Year program throughout 2025.

• Serving as a member of the ACLU of Illinois’s Next Generation Society.

• Tutoring high school students in reading, writing, and history subjects.

• Writing once a week on my Substack, You Signed Up For This!

• Reading: Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, by Florian Illies

• Listening to my April playlist feat. Lucy Dacus, Samia, Bon Iver, Jensen McRae, and more