I’ve been lucky to spend the lion’s share of my career bragging on the Pine Tree State – its trails and railcycles and coastal waters. I’ve had the honor of spotlighting Maine’s people, too – their passions, their challenges, and the incredible ways they triumph every day. 

I’ve been long dedicated to inspiring others to learn about and experience all the wonders outside their doors through exploration and adventure.

In recent years, that love of Maine’s woods and waters has translated to a deeper curiosity: the carbon-catching marvel of a bog, the provocative reproductive realities of a barnacle, the volunteers who tenderly escort frogs and salamanders across the road each spring.

My passion today is in amplifying the lesser-known stories of Maine’s landscapes: the dedicated managers and volunteers who so adeptly steward our public lands; the inquiring researchers who study the impacts of our changing climate – and how we can grow resiliency amid the rapid change; the social scientists keeping their keen eyes on how we move about to better preserve our natural resources.

As I’m about to celebrate my 20-year Maine-iversary, I feel incredibly lucky to call Maine home (although I also had a grand time going up in the suburbs of Chicago). These days, I have the pleasure of being able to split my time between South Portland and Islesford, where I spend the bulk of my free time kayaking and paddleboarding the coastline, hiking in the Whites, reading about lobsters and lightning bugs, and otherwise reveling in the sights, sounds, and scents of Maine’s woods and waters.