My teaching and writing...
is informed by a peripatetic career that's included service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Papua New Guinea, co-founding and teaching Latin at a South Bronx middle school and working in the public schools and nonprofits of my beloved home region, South Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
These days I teach storytelling and organize and emcee live storytelling events around the region, partnering with towns (New Marlborough and Richmond, most recently) and nonprofits such as Berkshire Botanical Garden, Literacy Network and Greenagers. In addition to group classes I am available in a freelance capacity for both story event curation or to workshop your speeches, lectures and other public speaking obligations.
I do what I do because I see storytelling as our best hope for nurturing human connection and healing our divisions.
As a writer and freelance journalist my interests include public education reform, the legalization of cannabis, income inequality, and the craft of writing.
Clarity, my Substack newsletter, is the place to find my personal essays, strongly-held opinions, humor pieces, and storytelling and creativity pointers. I've been a regular contributor to The Berkshire Edge since 2014 and serve on the board of the Berkshire Waldorf High School, which my two daughters have attended.
