about

I didn't find my way through a traditional route.

I found it by skipping school to sit in museums for hours — not on a field trip, not for a grade. Just because I needed to understand something about people that I couldn't find anywhere else.

That need never went away.

My primary connection is to Georgia, but my work spans the entire Caucasus — a region most of the world has overlooked and that has, quietly, some of the most profound stories about survival, belief, and what it means to remain yourself under pressure. I came to it as an outsider. I stayed because something in it recognized me.

I made a YouTube channel that tells these stories from the angles that tend to get left out — the women, the unnamed builders, the failed first attempts, the long silences between major events. The parts that make the history human rather than monumental.

I'm also writing a book at the intersection of faith and Caucasus history and culture. And I'm in the middle of my own conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity — which means this work is not academic for me. It never was.

I speak for organizations and consult for people and institutions trying to engage more honestly with history, faith, and cultural identity — not as a performance of diversity or education, but as a real conversation.

What I've found, sitting in those museums and now making videos and writing and talking to people across the world, is this: most people are more curious, more spiritually alive, and more historically hungry than anyone around them has assumed.

I'm interested in the people and organizations ready to take that seriously.