Let me tell you a story…
Back when I was a kid, I couldn’t put the camcorder down. I loved to shoot, I loved to tell stories. It was all about finding those wonderful, fascinating tales tucked into everyday life. I guess I just never stopped.
The son of two firefighters, I was raised on a little apple farm in Northern California. In high school I caught the reporting bug, restarting a long-dormant school newspaper. And when I graduated, I packed up and moved to New York City to go to NYU to study broadcast journalism.
I’ve been crisscrossing the country ever since. I started out in Wausau, Wisconsin at ABC-affiliated WAOW. Looking to thaw out, I moved south to work for Spectrum News in Austin, Texas. I led Spectrum News' national network coverage of Orlando's Pulse Nightclub massacre, reported from Dallas after a sniper killed five law enforcement officers, and filed from the floodwaters after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston.
I later joined Austin’s capitol press corps, reporting for the nightly, Texas-focused political show Capital Tonight.
I’m a little farther west now, calling Phoenix, Arizona my home and reporting for the duopoly 3 TV and CBS 5 as a general assignment reporter. But my mission hasn’t changed: it’s still all about the story. We’ll see what happens in the next chapter.
