Adam was born near the cradle of civilization, New York City, and was raised on the rough streets of the Philly suburbs, where he nurtured silently his love of the natural world through rearing an abundance of exotic pets, culminating in his beloved ball python, Patricia. He obtained his higher degrees of education from Lehigh University, studying engineering, geology, and environmental science. It was on a cross-country geologic field camp that Adam discovered his love of the West and its mythos.

After working the oilfield for two years as a Survey Engineer, Adam’s hiatus saw him spending time as a WWOOFer on homesteads across the eastern seaboard, focusing on animal husbandry and land cultivation. He used that time to springboard into the environmental remediation world, moving to Providence, Rhode Island, where he would spend the subsequent six years.

Adam shifted gears during the tumult of the pandemic, investing in his community by delivering milk for a local fifth-generation dairy.  It was an incredibly rewarding time in his life, as he quickly became known to hundreds of customers and friends alike as “the Milkman,” a title he still cherishes to this day.  After fulfilling a dream to Kerouac across the country to California, his focus turned to forestry and trail work, becoming a Lead Corps Member through the American Conservation Experience.  He worked trails from the coastal range of Big Sur to the sun-scorched playas of the Mojave, then wrangled granite boulders to build a staircase for the Inaja Wildfire Memorial.  He felled Douglas Firs and White Pines as a sawyer with a trusty Stihl, wedding the discipline of a roughneck with the grace of a gardener.  Within his crew, he worked one-on-one with young adults as a mentor in both hard and soft skills, both as they pertained to thriving in a backcountry setting, to maturing into an actualized, compassionate human being in a dizzying, sometimes alienating modernity.

Adam takes great pride in both his material and metaphysical endeavors, employing equal amounts of calculated reason and whimsy to his crafts.  He is a proficient navigator and outdoorsman, flourishing most when encircled by mountainous terrain, though he’s easily intoxicated by the study of history and classical literature, from Rome to Dostoyevsky.

He wishes to impart unto others tangible wisdom and relatable parables, such as that joy is an act of resistance.