
I grew up in
Albany, California, a couple of blocks from Berkeley and a short BART
ride from San Francisco. Starting out in a place where it's spring all
year, I proceeded to make a series of highly questionable moves (snowy
New England, rainy Old England, polar vortex-battered Canada) and a
couple of more understandable ones (San Diego, the Marshall
Islands). My boomerang-shaped migration has landed me in Toronto, where
I live with my wife and work in the
program evaluation field (which is much less boring than it sounds).
Professionally, I've worn a number of hats. I'm trained as a cultural anthropologist and have done extensive
research
on the human dimensions of climate change under the auspices of Oxford University, McGill University, and the University of
Toronto. From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a consultant, dividing my
focus between the Greater Toronto Area and the Pacific Islands. I've also written two
travel memoirs. I now work at
Cathexis Consulting in Toronto.
You can learn more about me, especially my involvement with the
climate-
threatened Marshall Islands, in this
BBC
Oxford radio interview and these articles in the
Oxford
Mail and the
Oxford
Times. Other interviews can be found here:
Rolf
Potts,
Andy
Ross Agency,
Pasifika
Truthfully, Travel
Wonders Part 1 /
Part 2,
Wandering
Educators,
Travel
Junkie,
The
Planet D.