I’m a designer, developer, and social entrepreneur.

I like to build new things that generate social good while also returning positive revenue.

I’m currently co-founder and director of Small Axe Cannabis Co. We make high-end cannabis products from the mountains of Asheville, NC – and devote ourselves to charity and helping the underprivileged:

“If you’re the Big Tree, We are the Small Axe.”

Occasionally, I also provide marketing, user experience, and design/development consulting for a few commercial clients across several industries.

From 2015-2017, I founded and developed a startup software company, matchVote. We built artificial intelligence to organize and analyze America’s political information. Our mission was to help citizens more easily understand what’s happening in political news by finding the politicians that agree and disagree with the issues that are most important to them. During this period, I also sat on the Advisory Board for Coca-Cola’s NextGeneration Leadership Foundation.

From 2012-2015, I co-founded and was the National Campaign Director for Scouts for Equality, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the discriminatory membership policies of the Boy Scouts of America. We won the first step in May of 2013 and the second step in July of 2015… even though the BSA has a Supreme Court ruling protecting their 30+ year old policy. As an Eagle Scout, I believe that the BSA is fundamentally a terrific organization – but that these policies are antithetical to its purpose and mission. I currently sit on SfE’s Advisory Board.

From 2005-2012, I was the founder and principle of The Limelight Studio, a marketing and web development firm that built branding & advertising campaigns for businesses and non-profits – as well as several Congressional candidates.

From 2001 to 2005, I was a student at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC where I studied Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics and Business Administration.