Who
I am.

I work in business development at Actaeon, a DC-area contractor, where the job is equal parts strategy, relationships, and understanding how real infrastructure gets built and paid for. Before that, I worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide, which gave me a close view of how policy actually moves — and how often it doesn’t.

Outside of work, I read widely and seriously — history, philosophy, geopolitics, psychology — and I write to think. I’m drawn to hard questions more than tidy answers, and to the kind of attention that notices what’s easy to overlook.

I’ve spent time across very different worlds, from government to the trades, and I’m interested in what connects them. Recently I traveled through China and Korea, which sharpened a long-standing interest in how other societies are organized and what they value.