About Me



I was born in Tulsa, OK and grew up in Stigler, a small town in eastern Oklahoma. I went to the Oklahoma School of Science and Math (public boarding school in Oklahoma City) for the last two years of high school and then moved to California to study at Stanford.

I graduated in 2002 (major in physics, minor in political science) and wandered around bartending and traveling for a couple of years until I landed in Palestine. I lived in Ramallah for a year and a half and had an amazing time working as a journalist, doing foreign press coordination for a presidential candidate, traveling, and writing a blog called Letters from Palestine.

In January 2006 I moved to Washington, DC and worked at a Defense think tank in the belly of the Bush Beltway to find out what I could learn and teach. After nearly two years in DC, I moved back to Ramallah and started writing a book called Fast Times in Palestine. You can view my blog to check the status of the project.

I enjoy sports, especially soccer, basketball, jujitsu, and scuba diving. Here are a few quotations I enjoy.






With my two nephews, Jack and Jake, spring 2009


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