“I found him to be wise, introspective, and willing to acknowledge the frays around people’s edges. He is a natural reporter with exceptional investigative talent and an easy way with people from all walks of life.”
- Bob Woodward, The Washington Post
Writer. Editor. Environmentalist.
Sam is a Michigan native, who specializes in ghostwriting, editing, book doctoring, and interviewing.
He’s a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has a background in written, broadcast, and photojournalism for public radio, as well as publication design, and international policy writing.
Sam earned his Masters of Environmental Management from Yale University, where he was named a 2019 Journalism Scholar by Bob Woodward (Washington Post) and Mark Oppenheimer (New York Times). He served as a Teaching Fellow for New York Times science writer Carl Zimmer’s Yale College journalism course: “Writing about Science, Medicine, and Technology,” and worked as the Arts and Communications Director for Yale’s environmental publication - SAGE Magazine.
Sam has served alongside UNOCHA, UN IOM, Gates Foundation, World Bank, International Committee of the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Mercy Corps, and others, to craft United Nations’ frameworks addressing gaps in humanitarian climate-disaster preparedness, and the threats of Ai and advanced data science methods in humanitarian missions.
With experience in over a quarter of the world’s countries, Sam deeply enjoys writing with people from all cultural backgrounds and walks of life. He believes everyone has a story to tell.
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Work has been published by: Little, Brown and Company; Melcher Media; Radius Book Group; The United Nations Data Science and Ethics Group; Public Radio Exchange; Ideastream; WBFO Buffalo; Michigan Public Radio; Interlochen Public Radio; North Country Public Radio; SAGE Magazine; Bridge Magazine; Great Lakes Echo; Great Lakes Today; The New Haven Register; and the Traverse City Record Eagle.
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