But I haven't always worked in public media. Some of my past lives include:

• Researching the life of baseball Hall of Famer Satchel Paige for author Larry Tye's New York Times Bestselling biography;
  

• Working as an English teacher in Japan, where I lived for two years in a tiny seaside town in Nagasaki.
  

• Going to grad school at Harvard, where I won an award for my work as a Language and Literacy student (and also met my wife).
  

• Moving to California for a job at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, where I helped design a curriculum called Amplify Science that is now used in more than 40 states nationwide.
  

• Joining an early-stage software startup in San Francisco, where I cut my teeth as a Product Manager designing geospatial software.

Outside of work, I enjoy being outside. I met some of my best friends playing ultimate frisbee as an undergrad at Tufts University. I've hiked in 11 national parks and run two marathons.

I also love board games and have probably spent way too much time playing Scrabble, Dominion, and Terraforming Mars online against strangers.