A regular contributor to VICE News on the environment and climate change, he has also written for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Boston Globe, and other publications. He is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where he received an MA in science journalism, and Columbia School of the Arts, where he did an MFA in nonfiction writing. A former high school English teacher, he has also instructed in Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program. Specialities in the Writing Center include journalism, science writing, job search materials, University Writing, English lit, literary non-fiction, personal statements and application essays, English as a second language, and grammar.