Freelance Journalist and Podcast Producer

Passionate About Ending the War on the People Who Use Drugs And Human Rights for All

Freelance Podcast Producer, Editor, Host

Within my role as a freelance podcast producer, I helped secure major names in the psychedelic, research, and academic space. As the editor of these episodes, I was also in charge of mixing audio levels, splicing tracks, silencing harsh tones/noises, and more.

Here’s a sample of the effort I put in as a freelance podcast editor:

Raw Audio
After Editing

While the bulk of my work has revolved around psychedelics, harm reduction, and drug use, I also had the opportunity to help produce a quarterly, 2-hr livestream chat with 11 different authors.

I produced and co-hosted the event with more planed

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Select Episodes From The Tripsitter Podcast:

In each of the below, I acted as the producer, co-host, and editor (or co-editor):

Who I Am

&

What I Stand For

  • I am a journalist who got my start as a freelance content creator for cannabis brands. I have a passion for psychedelics but, more than that, I believe in the rights and personal autonomy of all people who use drugs.

    I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan before moving to Nashville for college in 2010. Since first trying psychedelics 5 years ago, I have built a career out of advocating on behalf of a responsible path forward in the world of psychedelics.

    My work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Filter Magazine, and Tripsitter. Through my podcast with the last of these, I have had discussions and formed relationships with people in the industry who are my absolute heroes.

    I believe in a future where we can all build each other up, destroy the systems that keep us oppressed, and forge a path forward devoid of the stigma and miseducation we’ve been force-fed through centuries of capitalism.

  • I try to use whatever platform I can gain to amplify some of the following simple truths:

    1. Psychedelics (and our society as a whole) will never move forward meaningfully without addressing the people we’ve systemically oppressed on the way to where we are

    2. The people who use drugs are people and deserve the same rights as anyone else

    3. We all use drugs in some form or another (as Vincent Rado elegantly points out, common table salt can be considered a drug)

    4. There is no good form of prohibition, just as there is no good way to take away the freedoms and rights of a person

    5. Drugs are not inherently good or bad — psychedelics won’t guarantee a better life and heroin won’t guarantee a worse one. We are the ones who place value on substances

    6. Reducing harm is more impactful than strong-arming prohibition

    7. Research surrounding psychedelics is promising, encouraging, inconclusive, and nuanced

    8. Psychedelics will not cure systemic problems in our society and those are overwhelmingly the root cause of the main problems research focuses on

    9. Psychedelic exceptionalism is a gross practice that reinforces literally thousands of years’ worth of stereotypes (see #5 for more guidance)

    • Podcast Hosting, Production, Management, and Editing for the Tripsitter Podcast

    • Bylines in The Daily Beast, Filter Magazine, and Tripsitter

    • Experience writing for companies, content for brands, and more

    • Managed assignments, editing, and helping with the career growth of a small team of writers

    • Played a large role in developing massive new platforms to pivot to readership-support and grew them to great numbers through word-of-mouth and high-quality work

    1. I’m ambitious as hell

    2. I’m dedicated as shit

    3. My morals matter more than my paycheck

    4. I love corrections, cherish instruction, and continually implement feedback into my work

    5. Community and collaboration are more important to me than name-recognition