who we are

The summer before 9/11, just after I finished my freshman year of high school, my parents and I moved into a New York City studio so I could intern at a basketball magazine. It was an upstart publication short on staff, and I was long on enthusiasm (gratitude to Patrick Cassidy). Within weeks, I was calling the Los Angeles Lakers’ general manager and interviewing NBA players.

In college, I weighed internship offers at Pardon the Interruption, the sports talk show on ESPN, and the U.S. Senate (I chose the Senate; little did I know that PTI would end up having more credibility…). Before my senior year, I interned at Time magazine and (shout out to Nathan Thornburgh) published a half-dozen stories, from hot dog eating champions to federal executions.

I share this not to demonstrate how I prematurely reached my professional peak but to show how these experiences — people telling me, yes, you can — had a transformative impact on me. No wonder my classroom motto as a teacher — in 2008, as Obama had crowds chanting “yes, we can” — was “anything is possible.”

In the subsequent years, life has scratched my rose-colored glasses. I’ve spent more than a decade working in historically under-resourced communities like the South Bronx, Camden, New Jersey, Gary, Indiana, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas — as well as a few years working for billionaires, with a b — and I’ve learned a great deal about privilege and bias and their profound and long-lasting consequences.

Which gets us to Each Day. After serving in administrator roles at two urban school districts, I spent a handful of years consulting on my own as a solopreneur, doing well but feeling like I lacked a larger purpose. I regularly bemoaned the homogeneity of my work bubble and remarked on the incongruity of – in my experience – white men making six-figure salaries by sharing the stories of public school students, more than half of whom were people of color and more than half of whom came from low-income households. To a friend’s great credit (thank you, Devon Puglia), I got a kick in the butt to go do something about it, circa 2022.

Each Day is my response: a diverse-by-design comms firm comprising creatives who focus on doing the work and making a difference. Simple in mission, not in execution.

At my core, I still believe in possibility. Each Day is a vehicle for that belief, a chance to create opportunities on a broader scale for both the people we work with and the people we work for, to find ways to tell stories that, in their own little way, help increase understanding and bring people together.