Writing
“A Toast to a 100 Year-Old Spy Catcher” in The New York Times
“Flip the Script With NYC’s New Urban Forest Plan” Op-Ed in City Limits
“Let’s Transform NYC’s Waterfront Street-Ends for Equitable Water Access” Op-Ed in City Limits
“NYC History in 10 Boats” - Waterfront Alliance’s WaterWire
Mañana Temprano - Poetic text for photo book collaboration with Cuau Romero
“Capturing Pandemic-Era Preservation” - New York Preservation Archive Project Newsletter
“A Strong Dose of Greenland” - The Log, travel writing in the journal of the Circumnavigators Club
“A Song for All Time” - America Celebrates Walt Whitman - Walt Whitman Initiative on the Whitman Bicentennial
“Don’t bulldoze blight. Use it as bait to lure newcomers.” - in The Lens, post-Katrina New Orleans
“Kudos to city for new blight strategy in historic areas” - The Lens, post-Katrina New Orleans
Back Deck Garden Update - Annual report on urban roof garden plantings
Producer
The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal - On-water productions August 2024, Shore-side productions October 2024
Publicist
ARRIVALS - large-scale sculpture and painting exhibition by artist Jos Prol - November-December 2024
Recording
Facilitator/Host/Moderator
Group Leader for The Power Broker Book Discussion Group at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction - 10-course series offering spring 2025
Host/moderator - In conversation with author Margaret Brucia re: book The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life - The Common Good bookstore, Ellenville, NY - September 2025
Co-coordinator/co-host - Mucking Things Up - a monthly intertidal speaker series - Dredgers Boathouse - First half of 2025
Editor
Yellowbird: A True Tale of the Early Settlement of Town Schleswig - with Ed Majkrzak
Editor in Chief, Tulane Maritime Law Journal - 2009-2010
Editor, The Raider Reporter 2001-2002
Reviews/Criticism
Review of On the Hook’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s play Anna Christie
Review of book Preserving South Street Seaport
Review of the architecture of the National Museum of the American Indian
Scholarly Articles
Rice Co. (Suisse) S.A. v. Precious Flowers LTD - Precious Indeed: The Fifth Circuit Refrains from Compelling Arbitration of a Non-Signatory Vessel Owner - Tulane Maritime Law Journal
Lectures/Presentations/Appearances
“Walt Whitman’s New Orleans Foray” for the Louisiana Landmarks Society (and interview)
“Tide Mills: Green Energy from the Colonial Era” for Turnstile Tours
“The Preservation Effort for 99 Ryerson” for Historic Preservation Course at New York University
Stonewall 50 World Pride - Human Rights Panel Speaker on commemorating LGBT historic sites
Dredging the Past and Present of the Gowanus Canal for Turnstile Tours
Guest - Bowery Boys Podcast - Episode on Walt Whitman
Co-presenter - “Magnificent Mr. McAneny” - Historical Society of the New York Courts Podcast
“Finding Cargo for Sail Freight” - Sail Freight Conference - Hudson River Maritime Museum
Guest Speaker - Annual Salute to Andrew Haswell Green in Central Park at the Green Memorial Bench
Guest Lecturer - Columbia University poetry course with Professor Kendra Sullivan - Lecture “Poetry & Waterways”
Guest Lecturer - NYU historic preservation course with Professor Kelly Carroll - Lecture “Saving Walt Whitman’s House”
Tours
West Village Literary Walking Tour (for NYU Creative Writing Program)
Waterfront Access Tour - Sunset Park & Gowanus, Brooklyn (Jane’s Walk)
Gowanus Landmarks Tour (Jane’s Walk)
Gowanus Canal tours by canoe (for Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club) *Article in Curbed
Penn Station Neighborhood Emergency Walk (for Empire Station Coalition) *Video
Penn Station Poetry Ramble (Jane’s Walk)
Birding Tour (co-lead)
Whitman After Dark - Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO (Brooklyn Book Festival Book End Event)
“Bombin’ the Gut” - Downtown Kiel, WI architectural history tour
Gay Bars That Are Gone Tour - participant presenter on Pfaff’s, Walt Whitman, Fitz Greene Halleck
Curation - Creative Events
NYC Poets Afloat - Annual poetry residency and reading series aboard ships in New York Harbor. 2019-present
Gowanustasia - Occasional poetry reading series at Principles GI Coffee House in Gowanus, Brooklyn. 2023-present
Gowanus Dawn Reading - Group poetry reading in canoes on Gowanus Canal to an audience on shore. 2018-present
Boat for the Vote - Get out the vote flotilla featuring a drag queen singing opera with French Horns…in boats. 2020
Bridges of Brass - 15-person brass band in canoes playing audiences on shore and bridges in Gowanus, Brooklyn. 2020
Annual Pride Paddle - Gowanus, Brooklyn with the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club *TV news coverage 2018-present
A Declamation After Dark: Paradise Lost on the Gowanus - On-water after-hours reading afloat. 2019
Film Festival Coordination
Preservation Film Festival - NYC - Five-borough film festival 2018, 2019
Gala Planning
Bard Birthday Breakfast Benefit - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Fundraising
Crowdfunding and musical preview fundraiser events for the new opera version of A Single Man
Successful Kickstarter to fund cast album recording of the music of The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal musical at BC Studio
Fundraising campaign for Ukrainian stoves and general support in the first two years of the War on Ukraine
Annual appeals for established non-profit organization
Public Testimony
Effort to landmark Walt Whitman’s only remaining NYC home, the Leaves of Grass House in Brooklyn
Various waterfront, planning, and preservation-related matters
Art Exhibitions
Gowanus Open Studios 2019 - Exhibited and sold architectural and cartoon drawings on ostrich, emu, rhea, and cassowary egg shell fragments. Hand drawings on paper, postcards. Paintings with whortleberry jam, chartreuse, and frappucino on cardboard. Mixed media pieces.
“I Don’t Repent: Seeking Elizabeth Burgin” - Sculpture - part of the SALLY exhibition curated by Sasha Chavchavadze and JoAnne McFarland, focused on scraps of recorded history about a female Revolutionary War spy.
Salon de Refuses - Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition - exhibited and sold drawing “Rezone Gowanus” - Fall 2024
Gowanus Dredgers Members Exhibition - Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse - exhibited and sold hand-drawn map “Throw all the spaghetti on the table” - October 2024
“Bridges of Gowanus” - Principles GI Coffee House - Eight-painting series on display, sale. August/September 2025
Film Credits
Windshipped by Jon Bowermaster - appearance as self (supercargo of sail freight schooner Apollonia)
Principles GI Coffee House Documentary - appearance as self (patron/denizen of Principles)
Gowanus Current by Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds - appearances as self (citizen of Gowanus, Brooklyn)
Orange - poetry video by Benedict Campbell
Dramatic Roles
Eolus - The Play of the Weather
Developer - Cafe Rezone street theater series
Scottish Janitor - split role - Nun of Your Business
Creating Grant Programs
Helga Dawurske Facade Restoration Grant Program - Kiel Area Historical Society
Crown Jewel Grant Program - Digitization of Historic Archival Materials
Fellowships
Ed Majkrzak Historic Preservation Fellow - National Trust for Historic Preservation
Eric Andrus Sustainable Logistics Fellow - Center for Post Carbon Logistics
Wedding Officiant
Upstate New York
New Orleans, Louisiana
Denver, Colorado
Awards
Louisiana Preservationist of the Year
Preservation Award - Foundation for Historical Louisiana
Multi-Year Advocacy Blog
Inside the Footprint - Documenting and advocating for a National Register district neighborhood and its residents and buildings on a daily basis as it was destroyed in post-Katrina New Orleans over two years.
Running/Growing Instagram Accounts
Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club - @gowanusdredgers - 2017 - 2022 (created account, grew to first 5,000 followers)
New York Preservation Archive Project - @nypap_org - 2018-2023 (created account)
Schooner Apollonia - @schooner_apollonia - jointly 2022-2024
Virtual Program Series Producer/Host
Coffee Break Chats - Zoom Programming Series Interviewing Guests - 2020
NYPAPy Hour - Zoom Programming Series Interviewing Guests - 2020
Preservation Origins: Stories from Around the Country - 2020-2021
Sustainable Sail Freight Agent/Supercargo
Sail freight agent assisting schooner Apollonia - 2019 - 2021
Sail freight agent assisting Grain de Sail - spring 2021
Supercargo for schooner Apollonia - 2021 - 2024
Sail freight and low-carbon transport strategy for Center for Post Carbon Logistics - 2023-2024
Location Scout/Site Assistance
Advising waterfront infrastructure tour on sites of interest
Arranging and facilitating photo and video shoot for sustainable pigment company
Advising musician on album photo shoot site options and shots
Graphic Designer
Design posters and social promo for musical performances and concerts
Design posters and handbills for book talks, speaking engagements, meetings
Design posters, handbills, and social promo for film festival screenings and art exhibitions
Design posters and social promo for product sale campaigns
Design posters and social promo for apprenticeship, volunteer programs
Design creative map interpretation displays
Sketch rough renderings and designs for architectural, landscape architecture, and other urbanism interventions
Drew images by hand for use in sweatshirt, shirt, bandana, sticker, and online GIF production
Creative Naming Consulting
Generated potential names for petrochemical cleanup chemical (including name ultimately used for product)
Generated potential names for large-scale commercial warehouse facility (short list under review)
Generated potential names for expat pension recovery company
Generated name for art exhibition
Generated name for tree planting organization
Generated name for regular poetry reading series
Generated names for multiple programming series
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