Detailed and productive researcher and writer specializing in social justice, public policy, history and culture, music and culture-related travel.  Published in September 2021, an award winning travel guide to the roots of the blues, co-authored with TWUC member Josephine Matyas: Chasing the Blues: A Traveler's Guide to America's Music, (Globe Pequot/Backbeat Books for publication in the U.S., Canada and the UK). http://backbeatbooks.com/books/9781493060603. Being published in October 2025 another travel/music book: The Music Lover's Guide to North America: Museums, Historical Sites, and Other Points of Interest, (Bloomsbury Publishing) for distribution worldwide. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/music-lovers-guide-to-north-america-9781493089635/