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About Me

I am a writer/researcher at a DC non-profit that does investigative journalism in the public interest. Previously, I have served as a finance assistant to Rep. Dick Gephardt, a fundraiser at Mercer & Associates, Inc., a director of research for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist/historian Nick Kotz's book JUDGMENT DAYS: LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., AND THE LAWS THAT CHANGED AMERICA, president of the Virginia Partisans Gay & Lesbian Democratic Club, and campaign manager/legislative aide to Virginia State Delegate Adam Ebbin.

My Interests

Politics, musical theater, Boston sports teams, civil rights

Music:

Broadway (Ahrens & Flaherty, William Finn, Stephen Schwartz), The Who, STYX, ABBA, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Red Grammer

Movies:

The American President, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Chicago, Clockwise, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Latter Days, Jeffrey, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Angels in America

Television:

The West Wing, The Family Guy, Picket Fences, Boston Legal, C-SPAN II, Bill Maher, How I Met Your Mother, Sports Night, Arrested Development, Scrubs

Books:

JUDGMENT DAYS: Lyndon Baines Johnson Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws that Changed America (by Nick Kotz), The Buying of the President 2008 (not yet written), books about LBJ and MLK, anything by Al Franken, Douglas Adams

Heroes:

Paul Wellstone, Ann Richards, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, John Lewis