I’ve been a writer, award-winning journalist, podcaster, and international communications professional for nearly 20 years in the U.S. and Europe. My book Kneading Journalism: Essays on baking bread and breaking down the news, published in 2023.
My past journalism work appeared on, among others, NPR, the BBC, PRI, Deutsche Welle, Unabridged Press, and Swissinfo. I also created and maintain the award-winning Faith Full Catholic Podcast, named “Best Religion Podcast” in 2025 by the Religion News Association.
In January 2022, I left daily news and began a global content leader role for a major professional services firm.
In December 2021, I stepped away from the microphone after 8 years as anchor for the National Public Radio station in Cleveland, overseeing afternoons as the most listened-to day part. The Ohio AP Media Editors honored me as “Best Anchor/Host” for work in 2020.
I was also a founding member of a group of non-profits, academics, and citizens hosting a series of free conversations about global affairs. One event aired on C-SPAN.
From 2010 to June 2013 I was a Zurich-based correspondent for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s English-language service World Radio Switzerland. My work covered a Swiss-Egyptian in revolutionary Cairo; history-making night flight of Solar Impulse; the future of Swiss banks; the reality of Swiss gun control; and I’ve interviewed bank CEOs and Nobel laureates.
I earned an M.B.A from Youngstown State University, with an emphasis in digital marketing, and an M.A. in International Relations and World Order (with Merit) from the University of Leicester. I earned my B.Sc. in Journalism from the University of Idaho.
My journalism work received honors from the Religion Newswriters Association (RNA); and garnered a second place National Headliner Award in 2017; three Edward R. Murrow awards from the RTDNA in 2014; a third place National Headliner Award in 2014; five Edward R. Murrow awards in 2013; among others.
I previously worked for the NPR station in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a stringer for the regional Northwest News Network.
In 2008, I was awarded the Arthur F. Burns fellowship, spending two months with Deutsche Welle Radio in Bonn, Germany. My major project compared U.S. and German guest worker realities by asking “Can a guest worker program work?”
Later in 2008, I toured German renewable energy sites, producing an in-depth series comparing Arizona energy policy to European practice.
In 2009, I was awarded a Robert Bosch fellowship for young American leaders, sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The fellowship facilitated high-level meetings with world leaders and power brokers in major European cities. I worked with editorial teams at West German Public Radio WDR focusing on arts, culture, and immigrant communities. At Bavarian Public Radio I worked with editorial teams on a daily multimedia talk show; with an immigrant-focused editorial team; and with Munich editors. I even traveled to Oslo to offer analysis on U.S. President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize for WDR.
From November 2020 to December 2023, I served as Co-President of the Board of Directors for the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association.
I’m a past “NextGen Leader” by the German Marshall Fund, and attended the Young Professionals Summit at Brussels Forum.
In addition to radio, I like to bake bread; regularly play acoustic guitar and write my own music; I’m a former sailing instructor; I’m an Eagle Scout; and I hold multiple SCUBA certifications from PADI as a Rescue Diver.
You might also like this from The Rotarian, from December 2011, prompted by my thank you note.