I spent the majority of my younger years skateboarding around Southern California looking for good spots to learn new tricks. When I was 19, I opened my first (legitimate) business – a skateboard shop in Riverside, California called Crooks which recently won a 2008 award for best men’s clothing shop in Riverside!
By 20, I was enrolled at the University of California Riverside (UCR) studying anthropology and history and by the end of my time there at 22, I had become an obsessive academic and given up the business to pursue knowledge instead of handrails.
Over the next 5 years archaeology took me to 13 countries and on countless expeditions. My most memorable was 3 months in the Yucatan Jungle of Mexico with UCR. My work there got me into two great schools to pursue underwater archaeology as a graduate student – James Cook University in Queensland Australia and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. After visualizing spending days on end floating in cold Scottish Crannogs, the choice was pretty easy. I completed my Masters degree at James Cook University in 2005. My Masters research was on the submerged landscapes of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe.
Over the last three years, I have worked in Alturas, California for the United States Bureau of Land Management and in Hawai’i for Cultural Surveys Hawai’i and later for my own firm Heritage Pacific.
My exit from this life coincided with an increasing interest in film as well as acceptance into a Ph.D. program at Royal Holloway, University of London where I am now sitting in some chilly rain writing this.
I have produced a number of documentaries over the last few years and continue to publish as much as possible. I will try to keep this site up to date as a sort of virtual academic bank account.
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