I’m a nonprofit leader, creative director, and writer working at the intersection of creative practice, institutional strategy, and storytelling.

Much of my work begins with a simple question: what are we actually trying to build? I’m interested in how organizations understand themselves, how people gather around a shared purpose, and how ideas become structures, relationships, and experiences that can endure. My career has moved increasingly into those connective spaces, where strategy, communication, creative work, and organizational life meet.

I currently serve as Director of Communications at Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a Pittsburgh nonprofit working across arts, education, workforce development, and social enterprise. My role extends across the organization, working with program and executive leadership, Development, the Board, community partners, funders, and other stakeholders to create institutional clarity and connection. I lead organizational narrative and creative strategy, shape fundraising and donor communications, advise leadership, and help translate the work happening across distinct programs into a coherent understanding of who we are and why it matters.

I remain deliberately close to the work itself. I write, design, photograph, facilitate, build systems, develop frameworks, and direct multidisciplinary creative work. Over the years, that has meant everything from annual reports, campaigns, and organizational identities to grant narratives, exhibitions, environmental graphics, films, and physical spaces. I am most at home moving between the conceptual and the concrete: understanding the larger problem, bringing people together around it, and making what is needed.

That same interest increasingly informs my study of organizational leadership, particularly the ways people, participation, culture, and institutions shape one another. I’m interested in organizations as things we make together, and in the responsibility of building structures strong enough to sustain meaningful work while remaining responsive to the people who give them life. I explored some of these ideas recently in “We Make and Are Made,” an essay reflecting on making, participation, and the reciprocal ways our work forms both people and institutions.

Outside of work, I’m a long-distance trail runner, woodworker, illustrator, and avid cook and baker. I live in Pittsburgh with my wife and two sons, in a home usually occupied by s