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Comrades! I hope you're all great.
I moved to New York City in 1994, almost a year after graduating from NCSU. I worked for a few years at the United Nations, the Spanish Embassy, and as a translator. I received my MA in 1998 in International Economics and went to work as a journalist and editor for The Economist magazine, covering the Middle East, until 2004, and writing and speaking as a freelance journalist and commentator. I taught as an adjunct professor at New York University, covering courses on the Middle East and Islam. Overall had a friggin ball for years in the City.
I moved to Washington DC to continue analytical work and journalism and travel to the Middle East, until I joined the US Department of State. After that I returned to New York to work at the United States Mission to the United Nations, which is where I am now.
It's been a sweet ride. In between all that work stuff, I've traveled the deserts of Arabia and Egypt, ridden a fire-breathing art dragon in the Nevada desert, run ultra-marathons, been in the Oval Office, met the woman of my life and managed to get two great kids out of the deal.
