The best way to sum up my adventures as an artist, author, and entrepreneur is that I'm an expert of change: societal, organizational, and personal. My latest venture, Nature Breakthroughs LLC, helps executives, entrepreneurs, creative people and their teams get unstuck, on purpose, so you can reclaim your superpowers and enthusiasm for life. Programs include the Wild Call Weekend, a three-day breakthrough experience in nature.

My previous work in technology, sustainability, and art led to a Presidential Executive Order, a Supreme Court victory, and a new social movement. I’ve been honored to serve as an advisor to the federal government, to run several impactful organizations, and even ran for mayor once, organizing the first opposition slate in a generation where I live (we lost to the machine). 

The New York Times called City Without Walls (cWOW) when I directed it, "one of the most socially engaged and dynamic art spaces." We did lots of really cool things with art, technology, emerging artists and inner-city kids in Newark, New Jersey that changed the trajectories of many young lives, including a giant mural created by kids with severe disabilities. Despite the Great Recession at that time, I created an arts stimulus plan that raised millions of dollars for these efforts.

While directing the nonprofit cWOW, I also ran United Visual Arts LLC, which I founded in 2006, and where I invented and patented the defEYE® frame. The Museum of Modern Art carried it in its holiday catalog. I also invented the Visible Universe there, and its data-driven approach to user interfaces, such as bubbbls and Foam for Facebook.

My paintings have exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and the Allied Museum in Berlin.

In the 1990s, I helped transform the environmental movement by coauthoring landmark studies about environmental justice and green jobs. In the 1980s, I championed the First Amendment as president of Public Data Access, Inc., advocating for the first federally mandated online public information system and winning a precedent-setting federal court battle over access to congressional finances. Vice President Al Gore praised my work which has been widely featured by ABC, CNN, NPR, USA Today, The Washington Post, and other media outlets.

Nature Breakthroughs: 5 Steps to Transform Yourself and the World, Manga for Men, The Truth About Where You Live (Random House), On Every Wall, Deadly Deceit, Discounting Human Lives, Hazardous Waste Management, and Sustainable America are a few of my books.

My PhD is from NYU, my AB is from Vassar College, and Who's Who even knows who I am, listing me as a statistician, author and artist. My Wikipedia page and full CV are available here.