I am a dual Masters student of the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center and the University of Madeira in Portugal.  With a background in film, fine arts, creative writing, and politics, I am interested in creating games and entertainment experiences that connect people with the world and each-other in deeper and more meaningful ways.

In my free time I enjoy trail hiking, vegetable gardening, playing board games, and building things.

Here are some other areas of interest of mine. They generally stem from a blog I ran between May of 2010 and August of 2011 about the potency of blending components from information, communication, social, and entertainment technologies to create empowering experiences.  You can find a selection of archived posts in ‘The Archive’ section.

GAMING

-incorporating live-streaming video into gaming

-exploring ways to better integrate gaming into social experiences

-crowdsourcing game creation

-cross-platform gaming (creating experiences that span console gaming and augmented reality, for example)

-developing augmented reality as a way to incorporate real-life data into gaming

-Esports and professional video gaming as spectator sport

-interactive storytelling