The Long Version

I grew up in Miami — born and raised in South Florida, where the sports teams are your religion and the humidity is non-negotiable. For a long time, writing about those teams was just something I did because I loved it, a way to stay close to the games while I built a career in the healthcare industry and worked toward my master’s degree in business healthcare management.

I never planned for it to become a profession. That’s not how it works, usually. The hobby becomes a side gig. The side gig finds an audience. The audience keeps showing up. And eventually you have to make a decision about what kind of life you actually want to live. I chose the words.

That decision brought me to the Miami New Times— the publication that has been covering this city’s food, nightlife, culture, and chaos since before I was old enough to read it. I’ve been contributing there since 2013. I’ve written cover features and broken local stories, covered restaurants and crime scenes, nightlife and neighborhood politics. Miami is a complicated, beautiful, maddening city, and I have never gotten tired of writing about it.

Along the way I picked up a stint at the Phoenix New Times— same alt-weekly DNA, different desert energy — and found a long home at Talk Media, where I’ve written thousands of news stories spanning sports, crime, food, culture, and breaking news. Through Voice Media Group, I moved from staff writer to senior editor, overseeing editorial across multiple markets. I contributed to UPROXX, bringing sports and culture writing to one of the web’s sharpest platforms.

Sports Illustrated is a name that carries weight — it means something to anyone who grew up with a copy on the coffee table. Getting to contribute there has been one of the genuine honors of my career. I cover professional and college sports, write features and analysis, and try to bring the same curiosity I developed in alt-weekly newsrooms to one of the biggest stages in American sports media.

Then I did something unexpected. I went to Vietnam.

Da Nang turned out to be the right place at the right time. I joined Third Time Games and its flagship product, Photo Finish LIVE — a blockchain-based horse racing simulation with a genuinely passionate global community — as Head of Content and Communications. I built the editorial voice from scratch, hosted workshops at Solana Summer Camp, managed community events, and discovered that the skills I developed in Miami newsrooms translated, with surprising ease, to the frontier of Web3 gaming. Before that I was Director of Content at Virtual Human Studios, one of the original juggernauts in blockchain gaming, where I learned what it means to tell stories for a community that doesn’t yet have the vocabulary for what it’s building.

I split my time today between Da Nang and South Florida — between a city that is inventing itself and the city that made me. I am still a journalist. I am also a communications strategist, a content leader, and someone who has learned that the best story you can tell is always the true one.

I’m available for editorial consulting, communications strategy, content leadership, and select writing engagements. I’m also, occasionally, available for a conversation about horse racing.