
The highlight of those years was a summer I spent in Central America, where I worked on a documentary on the streets of Nicaragua.Īfter college I moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for an environmental group called the National Audubon Society. I went to Syracuse University and studied communications and international relations. Probably my all-time favorite was a book called Mutiny on the Bounty, a novel based on the true story of a famous mutiny aboard a British ship in the late 1700s. As a kid my favorite books were action stories and outdoor adventures: sea stories, searches for buried treasure, sharks eating people… that kind of thing. I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and my family lived in Mississippi and Colorado before moving back to New York and settling in the suburbs north of New York City.
