📝 Award winning writer and journalist 🎥 Content creator/producer 📸 Professional photographer 🤳 Digital nomad 🚅 World traveler 🌏 Foreign correspondent 🗺 Chair of the National Press Club’s International Correspondent’s Committee 🤿 Certified SCUBA instructor 🥾 Hiker 🚴 Biker 🥑 Vegan 🐥 Animal lover 🚐 Vandweller (he/him) Journalism: vanpolitica.com (newsletter), sluchansky.com (freelance work), duediligenceshow.com (old podcast) Work appeared in National Geographic, NBC News, ABC News, BBC, The Hill, The China Post, Al Jazeera, national Japanese TV, national Chinese TV, national Italian TV, national Russian TV, and others. Reported from China 🇨🇳, Haiti 🇭🇹, Japan 🇯🇵, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central America, UN, WTO, World Bank, etc. Consulting agency: illuminationmultimedia.com I provide digital content, media relations services, and full communications strategy. I have worked with members of congress, nonprofits, private companies, federal agencies, international organizations, embassies, and political candidates, and other clients, achieving high-level placements in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, The Hill, and Vox, among others, as well as targeted local and niche media. Formerly: Senior Hill staffer 🏛 Political consultant Campaign manager Congressional correspondent SCOTUS correspondent Pulitzer Center fellow Japanese->English translator Mandarin->English translator Radio show host and podcaster SCUBA diving instructor Education: Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Georgetown University Law Boston University - IR Random things: ~Jean Claude Van Damme correctly guessed my sign. ~Bernie Sanders incorrectly accused me of being a Republican. ~I was teargassed by the IDF while covering the wall. (I’m Jewish, BTW.) ~I lived in Asia for 7 years and have traveled to more than 60 countries. ~My very first piece of fiction ever was recently published by the Washington City Paper. (The Battle of Dupont: A Story of Love and War in the Nation’s Capital)