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

• “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

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.

• Gowanus Dawn Reading - Group poetry reading in canoes on Gowanus Canal to an audience on shore. *Articles

• Boat for the Vote - Get out the vote flotilla featuring a drag queen singing opera with French Horns…in boats.

• Bridges of Brass - 15-person brass band in canoes playing audiences on shore and bridges in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

• Annual Pride Paddle - Gowanus, Brooklyn with the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club *TV news coverage

• A Declamation After Dark: Paradise Lost on the Gowanus - On-water after-hours reading afloat.

Film Festival Coordination

• Preservation Film Festival - NYC - 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 - 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.

Film Credits

• Windshipped by Jon Bowermaster - appearance as self (supercargo of sail freight schooner Apollonia)

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

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 - 2022

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