Executive Policy Specialist at PennDOT. Before that, fifteen years as a touring violinist, composer, and improviser.
I’m an Executive Policy Specialist in the Policy Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. I work on state policy around digital driver’s licenses, public transit, wildlife corridors, murals, transportation revenue, or whatever else lands on my desk each week. Previously I was a William & Hannah Penn Fellow in the same office. Before PennDOT, I got a master’s in city planning from Rutgers, where I was an Eagleton Fellow with the New Jersey Senate Democrats and interned at DVRPC. More on all that on the policy & planning page.
Before any of that, I toured the US and Europe as a professional violinist, composer, and improviser for about fifteen years — classical, rock, experimental, and points in between. I played in thingNY, a theatrical experimental music ensemble, and co-wrote multiple experimental operas. I toured with the World/Inferno Friendship Society, a cabaret-punk band. I played the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Late Show with David Letterman and many basements in between. Full archive on the music page.
What connects the two chapters is this: I love thinking about and visiting cities and places, I’m drawn to complex systems, and I like making the case for how the world should be.
I live in West Philadelphia with my wife Evie, our daughter Zola, and a cat named Grba.