I founded MyCatholicSite.com, where I help launch better websites for churches and schools with a focus on their brand position and voice. I live in Manayunk in Philadelphia. I also write and travel. E-mail me, or follow me on Twitter.

At MyCatholicSite.com, I’ve gotten to know a lot about life at Catholic parishes in a pretty granular sense. Evangelizing in the digital space, for most, remains aspirational rather than actionable. Things are changing. I’ll soon begin teaching a quarterly, five session class on “The Church, Evangelization, and the Digital Continent” in Philadelphia through Skillshare.

In 2010, I covered the Pennsylvania senate, gubernatorial, and congressional midterm elections for National Review Online, writing stories like this, this, and this and filming stuff like this and this. Prior to that, I worked at The Philadelphia Bulletin, a now-defunct newspaper, initially as an intern, later rising to web editor.

I’ve also written for The Daily Caller and The Huffington Post. I created InsideAcademia.tv, a weekly web video show delivering conversations meant to engage the uninitiated on the future of learning in America.

I’m a direct descendant of Michael Shakely (d. 1820), a Revolutionary War militiaman.

Other Things:

• Once asked (emphasis: once) to speak about politics, activism, and young people;
• been to most of the United States, and am working toward visiting all 50 states;
• on the board of the Penn State Student Radio Alumni Interest Group, so donate(!);
• wrote a short-lived higher ed column at that short-lived newspaper (no relation);
• am working to bookend my first quarter century with these first-time experiences;
• contribute occasionally to NRO’s Phi Beta Cons higher ed blog;
• Finally: I’m not a utopian.