I am a consultant and writer focused on the functional structure of the new economy.
In 2008 I assisted to launch and subsequently lead a global wire service in order to track the unwind of complex asset-backed securities backed predominantly by residential and commercial mortgages. I am an expert in complex securitization including ABS CDOs, student loans and solar panel ABS; I closely tracked FDIC and Treasury mortgage resolution strategies including HAMP, a series of state and federal settlements and the ensuing investor-led litigation of such. I hold a deep understanding of the global monetary system and the stage in which we find ourselves in the scope of evolutionary economics.
My passion for humanity and this Earth was the impetus for my journalism and communications career, which began at SPJ's number-one ranked daily student newspaper, The Daily Barometer. It was here that I began to my intensive study of the intersection between money, power and stewardship. I was the first student journalist to receive the SPJ's First Freedom Award and continued on to study the Middle East conflict with the Anti-Defamation League and federal environmental policy in regard to water treatment as the first investigative reporting intern at The Oregonian.
Following an opportunity to study the global implementation of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing measures, I landed in New York and squarely in deep financial journalist, covering subprime mortgages and complex securities. And the rest is history, much of which was behind-the-scenes until now. My work has appeared in all major publications and is cited in the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Congressional testimony and various private sector lawsuits.
