After my daughter was born in 2022, I felt a pressing desire to become more directly involved in the environmental movement, so I took an operations role at Earth Law Center (ELC), a leading nonprofit working to establish rights for nature and other ecocentric paradigm shifts in environmental law. While I love my work at ELC—and get to do plenty of editing as part of it—I am a bibliophile at heart, so I gladly offer consulting and editorial services for aspiring authors.

My editing path began in high school, when I became co-editor in chief of the school newspaper. During and after college, I worked for a historian to help research, write, and edit several self-published books on the U.S. air war in the South Pacific during WWII. I received a PhD in History from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2018, with a dissertation on the history of somatics (Western practices of mind-body integration). I also completed a four-year, 800-hour training in the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education and ran a private practice, specializing in people with Parkinson’s Disease, for five years. In my twenties, I spent more than three years training in traditional Zen Buddhism, principally at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center.

I live with my wife and daughter in the beautiful mountain town of Durango, Colorado, in the Four Corners area of the southwest United States.