Writing

• “A Toast to a 100 Year-Old Spy Catcher” in The New York Times

• “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

• “At Bowery Stop” - Short story recorded as part of album/podcast series Sounds of NYC

Editor

• Yellowbird: A True Tale of the Early Settlement of Town Schleswig - with Ed Majkrzak

Reviews

• Review of On the Hook’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie

• Review of book Preserving South Street Seaport

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

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)

• 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

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

Public Testimony

• Designating Julius’ Bar an LGBTQ city landmark

• Effort to landmark Walt Whitman’s only remaining NYC home, the Leaves of Grass House in Brooklyn

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

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)

Dramatic Roles

• Eolus - The Play of the Weather

• Developer - Cafe Rezone 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

Wedding Officiant

• Upstate New York

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• Denver, Colorado

Awards

• RADD Award

• 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

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 name for regular poetry reading series

• Generated names for multiple programming series