AS A SAILOR

I hold a 50-ton master’s license with a sailing endorsement issued by the US Coast Guard. I captain 40-foot monohulls in Boston and New England waters for cruises, deliveries, and daysails. I have also sailed more than 14,000 offshore miles on monohulls and catamarans, including crossings of the North Atlantic (Canaries to St. Lucia) and the South Atlantic.(Richards Bay, South Africa to Grenada).

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AS A STORYTELLER

From Chechnya to Iraq, from Moscow to Kabul, from Massachusetts to Maine, I have told the stories that might otherwise get lost in the din of news headlines: offbeat stories, the unexpected stories, stories found in the places where no one else was looking. I was the Moscow Bureau chief of The Boston Globe from 1996-2004 and The Washington Post from 2016-2018.

I contributed to the Boston Globe’s coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. My video reportage from Dagestan and Kyrgyzstan was part of an entry by Globe videographers that won the 2014 Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage. My report on tuberculosis on Russia was one of four investigative pieces on deaths from preventable diseases that won the 2003 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, I won the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award for my coverage in 1999 of the war Chechnya.