about me

I'm a Gen X native New Englander (US) now based in Germany. I have spent half a lifetime as an international news journalist, reporting in Europe and the US for print, radio and TV outlets on both sides of the Atlantic. 

My earliest education in the climate crisis came in 2002 on top of an Austrian glacier, filming for National Geographic at a historic weather station whose permafrost foundations were, ironically, melting away. It was my first climate story but not my last. Over the years so many assignments from migration to agriculture to environment to business seemed to land in the same place, and I came to understand climate as the essential story for our collective future. In 2019, walking and talking with climate-striking teenagers for a radio piece, I asked myself what I was doing to help. 

This work is my answer.

In 2019 I joined the European Climate Foundation where I was responsible for funder-facing content until 2022. Since then I have worked as a editorial consultant with climate philanthropies, philanthropy advisers and front-line climate organizations to help get resources to where they are needed. I still work as a journalist, but to avoid conflicts of interest I no longer report on climate action or actors. My hope is that I can do more good on the inside. Let's find out.