Experience

freelancer, author, journalist

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Expert

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  My expertise has been published with Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI), Policy Insights Forum, Oxford Analytica, US Naval Institute Proceedings, RUSI, and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy's Charged Affairs. I have also done research assignments while a consultant for Corporation for Enterprise Development (currently Prosperity Now) in DC in 2013, and as a temp for the Armed Forces Services Corporation (currently Magellan Federal) in 2016. I will soon publish a chapter in a book by the nonprofit Voices Against Trafficking, which will educate human trafficking professionals on mental health advocacy. I am as well working on a submission to a US military journal along with retired national security personnel, on the topic of UN peacekeeping. Attend meetings and publish with a locally-based national security advocacy organization as their volunteer mental health policy reform expert! I got my start in 2011 as an intern with the Hudson Institute.

• Journalist

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  In addition to writing for Voice of America and CNBC, I have worked simultaneously on local news stories as both a defense journalist and a music journalist for local newspapers and magazines such as Canadian Defence Review, the Chronicle Herald and other regional daily newspapers. I am working long term on a science fiction poetry project about a select few telepathically linked people chosen for immortality, to survive the gradual decline of the human population -- the sole reason for all global history, politics and culture until this point being to choose a set number from each nation on earth as many nations fall to Climate Change. My journalism is mostly about politics, defense and music, and my analysis focuses largely on US-Canada relations, on the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing agreement, on Middle East Politics, and on Arctic Security. In creative writing, I am now working collaboratively on a fiction film screenplay with people in national security careers (with a real US government media liaison on it), as I am simultaneously vetting screenplays for the screenplay contest at the Austin Film Festival. I'm as well on a paid book project writing the history of a nonprofit, CICR, which will take me to Ottawa in July.



Voice of America

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Stringer

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Voice of America is the US government's global TV, radio and print journalism outlet. My reporting for Voice of America has been translated into many languages for VOA's various language services, and has been read out loud on Somali radio and Tibetan TV. My articles have been picked up as wire stories by news outlets in Mexico, Ukraine, India, Pakistan, Uganda and Denver, Colorado! They have also gone viral here in my sleepy, remote Canadian home town where I live as a US citizen, as some of my reporting is about local affairs when I am not covering national or international stories.



Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Instructor

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  In my all-time most fulfilling work, I teach undergraduate art students "Mad Studies." My course for the summer 2023 semester has such high enrollment that there is a waitlist. In my all-time most fulfilling work, I teach undergraduate art students "Mad Studies." My course for the summer 2023 semester has such high enrollment that there is a waitlist.



Dalhousie University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor

  • Aug 2018 - May 2022

  At Dalhousie University, I taught in Public Administration on a graduate studies level, and now teach in Continuing Education, where my course is an elective in the police leadership certificate program. At Dalhousie University, I taught in Public Administration on a graduate studies level, and now teach in Continuing Education, where my course is an elective in the police leadership certificate program.



Oxford Analytica

• United Kingdom
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contributor

  • Jul 2020 - Dec 2021

  At Oxford Analytica I did intelligence analysis part time, first regularly and now occasionally. This has included reports on US-Canada relations, the Canadian defense budget, and on counterterrorism issues in Canada such as Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs). During this time I have audited courses in the Intelligence Studies program at American Military University, became a regular at Intelligence Community Inc. happy hours, and joined RUSI. This has allowed me to build a significant network in national security, intelligence and defense.



MUIR ANALYTICS LLC

• United States
• Public Policy Offices

• Counterterrorism Analyst

  • Nov 2016 - Jul 2017

  Muir Analytics is a Pentagon contractor. My research for Muir Analytics included work on extremist threats in the UK and Asia. Muir Analytics is a Pentagon contractor. My research for Muir Analytics included work on extremist threats in the UK and Asia.


NOW Lebanon
• Lebanon
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Copy Editor

  • Apr 2009 - Jul 2009

Georgia Today
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Editor

  • Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

The Daily Star
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Intern Writer

  • May 2008 - Oct 2008