I'm a designer, builder, and philosophical troublemaker who's spent decades making things — children's books, animated and immersive worlds, and now AI-powered apps and experiences.
I'm based in New York. Over the course of my career I've published sixteen children's books with major publishers including Simon & Schuster, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Scholastic, Orchard Books, and Clarion Books — working as both author-illustrator and illustrator. I co-created Pip's Island, an Off Broadway Alliance Award-winning immersive experience in Times Square, and The Machine Trial, a live experience in which an AI robot stands trial for the right to exist.
Using AI as both tool and collaborator, I build across territories — practical apps that make life a little better, and experiences that ask what life actually is. My current projects include Echo Codex, an AI-powered divination card game born from a late-night philosophical theory about reality; Penbie, an AI-driven gratitude and journaling app; and Upscale Whale, a macOS video upscaling tool.
I believe beauty and utility are the same thing. That the best technology should feel like it was made by a human who cared. And that the questions AI raises about consciousness, personhood, and reality are the most important questions of our time — too important to leave to technologists alone.
I write about all of it on Substack.