Now

Right now (as of: 6/24/2025), I am:

• Producing freelance podcasts for clients including National Public Media, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Free Space, Eat My Words, and two shows currently in development.

• Writing the first draft of a novel and participating in StoryStudio’s YA Novel-in-a-Year program (taught by James Klise) throughout 2025.

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

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

• Writing regularly on my Substack, You Signed Up For This!

• Reading: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by VE Schwab

• Listening to my June playlist, featuring aleksiah, Billie Marten, girl in red, Isabel Dumaa, MARIS, Caroline Kingsbury, HAIM, and Jaz Beeson.