About Me

That's me on the top left.

I was born and raised in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in Boston, Massachusetts. I attended the Boston Public Schools from K-12 -- where I learned how to play kickball and speak Latin -- before heading to Harvard.

For seven years, I spent my summers working as a vendor for the Boston Red Sox, selling peanuts, popcorn, sodas, and other overpriced items to the Fenway Faithful.

After college, I moved to New York City to pursue work in documentary film. I briefly worked for Frontline, before heading to The Nation magazine, where I wrote about youth politics and helped start VideoNation. I also made several short documentaries for Current TV.

In February of 2007, I wrote an article about the remarkable online enthusiasm surrounding Barack Obama's fledgling candidacy. After writing the piece, I got caught up in the enthusiasm myself, and decided to drop everything to move to Chicago.

I spent the next nearly two years on Obama's new media team, where I wrote for and directed the campaign's blog, served as the campaign's blogger outreach coordinator, and helped produce dozens of online videos. After the Obama campaign, I worked at Blue State Digital (BSD), alongside several Obama new media alums and many other talented online strategists. 


Currently, I'm helping run the Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM), a new organization supported by Google, Facebook, Twitter, BSD, and other major tech companies, that connects and empowers the next generation of digital activists around the world.

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