During my career in advertising, I would often remind myself there is a person on the other side of the screen who wants to feel heard. I continue to do so as a guest lecturer at UC Irvine, where I teach the power of empathy. And I hope I do so in my poetry, which attempts to pay proper attention to people, places and moments we tend to overlook. In 2025, I published my first poetry collection, Seeking Ordinary Joy. In 2026, Awatum Press published my new poems in Resistance: An Anthology of Overcoming, a two-volume literary and academic exploration of resistance.  My work has also appeared in The Raven Review, Last Leaves, The Dolomite Review, among others. I live in the Coachella Valley with Sarah, my partner, and Bailey, our Labrador, who also wants to feel heard, usually at dinner time.