I'm a radio and podcast producer based in Seattle, where I've worked on a variety of reporting, broadcast, and podcast projects for NPR member station KUOW. I currently work on the station’s flagship local broadcast program, “Soundside," where my favorite segments range from non-narrated audio profiles to field documentaries. My stories have won awards for sound design and documentary work. Originally from Grand Junction, Colorado, I cut my teeth working on small and large-scale projects at NPR member stations across the Pacific Northwest and at NPR's Story Lab, where I helped pilot NPR's "Shortwave" and "Louder Than a Riot" podcasts. In addition to my background in public radio, I work as a freelance sound designer and producer, writing original scores for California-based podcast house StudioToBe and producing projects from the hit true-crime series "Small Town Dicks" to the iHeartMedia limited-documentary series "Lords of Soccer." Outside of my professional work I greatly enjoy hiking state and national parks, likely clogging the trail to stop and grab my 100th recording of trees and creeks. I write on a variety of subjects, from the fallout of the 20th-century nuclear family to the existential dread of growing up on Facebook. I’m in the midst of producing a life-long project called Listen Closely, an experimental “podcast vlog,” and I’m currently releasing a documentary podcast series on uranium mining in my home region of Western Colorado. My favorite icebreaker is that I spent four summers touring the United States as part of a professional drum and bugle corp (“Like the NBA of marching band”). I hope to one day play a marathon game of D&D and I once got 3rd place in a college poetry slam.