Since 2022, I have conducted ongoing field research across nearly forty communities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America -- observing how people experience identity, belonging, trust, and civic life beyond what polling and media capture.

I brief organizations, academic institutions, foundations, and leadership teams on what that research reveals -- about American communities, about the gap between institutional narratives and lived experience, and about the dynamics shaping public trust in a fragmented environment. Briefings are grounded in specific field observation rather than abstracted data.

I speak to organizations, conferences, universities, and leadership teams about American identity, civic trust, and what four years of immersive fieldwork revealed about the country most institutions think they understand.

Talks are drawn directly from the field -- grounded in specific places, specific people, and specific moments. This is not a talk about collapse. It is a more honest account of what America actually looks like when you stay long enough to see it.

I accept a limited number of commissioned essays, reported pieces, and thought leadership projects for publications and organizations whose work intersects with the themes of America Beneath the Noise -- identity, belonging, trust, civic life, and the distance between how institutions see America and how Americans actually live it.