He is an early participant in the National Poetry Slam, former board member of Poetry Slam inc., and current director of the organization's summer writing and performance conference. He is a frequent speaker at teacher conferences and in schools in the United States and abroad where he uses performance poetry as a means to better literacy. He has been involved in promoting creative writing through performance and education in places as interesting as Ohio, Alaska, Vietnam and Bahrain. He has served on the board of Cleveland Public Theater, the Poets and Writer’s League of Greater Cleveland and Poetry Slam Inc.