I am originally from North Carolina and currently reside in Brooklyn. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Chicago. My professional experience includes roles as an investment banker and private equity advisor, the CEO of a film and television production services company, a theatrical producer, and a director of numerous non-profit arts organizations. In 2008, I ran for the US Senate as a Democratic candidate from North Carolina.

I have been a contributing writer on equality and social justice for a host of publications, and a lecturer on contemporary US politics as an adjunct professor- focusing on the corrosive influence of money in the electoral system. News outlets CNBC, NPR, NBC, ABC, FOX, Channel One (Britain) and ORF (Austria) have featured me as a guest.

In 2019 I completed a compilation of fifty portraits in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. My paintings tend to weaponize the male form to render the complex emotions triggered by negotiating identity in a world that vacillates between toleration of and contempt for difference. My art has been featured at Hands on Urban Art expositions in Montpellier and Paris (2022), respectively, as well group exhibitions Transforming Minds at the East Village Art Collective in New York (2022) and Send Me Nudes at nAd Gallery in Brooklyn (2024).

In October 2024 I was offered a performing role in an advertising campaign. Subsequently I have had featured roles as an actor and model in dozens of film, television and commercial productions and three stage plays in New York and Los Angeles.