Hi, folks. I’m Grant.
I’m a storyteller and a writer, a creative producer and an artist. I rely on instincts honed and skills gained across a 20-year career in journalism and media production to transmute big ideas into tangible realities.
In that time, I’ve created podcasts, produced television shows and films, and made a bit of art.
As an educator and organizer, I’ve taught journalism and storytelling on four continents and founded The Bombay Beach Broadcasting Collective, a quixotic community development project to bring community radio to the shores of California’s Salton Sea and beyond.
For Audible, I produced, wrote, and edited two seasons of a groundbreaking limited series about sound healing and psychedelic therapy.
AdWeek magazine named Maejor Frequency the Podcast of the Year, and Variety called it one of the Best New Podcasts of 2022. I produced season two – Psychedelic Frequency – in coordination with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS. In 2024, AdWeek named that second season the year’s Best Pop Culture Podcast.
Across audio, film and television, I’ve worked for and collaborated with organizations you know:
No matter the medium, I wayfind with the written word.
I began my career as a writer and foreign corresondent in the former Soviet Union, where I covered conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine, and today, I work extensively with journalists, lawyers, scientists, artists and others on scripting and voicing for the ear – both as a coach and a co-writer.
How we live now dictates what we’ll live next.
And I’m often exploring the fault lines where present imperfect meets future possible; the way we adapt at these rough places; and what that reveals of our collective rush forward through time.
I’m drawn to where tension mounts – here in the United States and around the world – and where new ideas spring forth: above the Arctic Circle where mammoths may roam; in search of sovereign internets in Siberia; inside crypto mines on three continents (when Bitcoin still cost $400); and beyond, into the Fifth Dimension.
Many of those stories have earned recognition: wide audiences, Emmy nods and other journalism awards as well as film festival curation and funding and six Vimeo Staff Picks.
When the world changes for the better, it will change first in our minds, in the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Or in dropping our narratives altogether.
I’m interested in more sustainable methods of modern myth making, in moving from magical thinking to magical realism and beyond, to surrealism.
In this fractious era, I’m on a path of exploration to discover how humanity might more harmoniously self-organize to short circuit the causes and conditions of cyclical suffering.