National Geographic Explorer, project manager, digital storyteller, wilderness guide, and educator

Collaborative storyteller with 10+ years of experience leading award-winning projects.

Jay has collaborated on campaigns across four continents on issues of human-wildlife conflict, habitat stewardship, HIV/AIDS, and women’s rights. His work can be found in Failed States, the award-winning Wolf OR-7 Expedition DocumentaryJourney to Empowerment: Women After the Taliban, and The Walking Collective Podcast. He is also a co-author of Walking & Wayfinding in the Westfjords of Iceland, which won the 2023 Guidebook prize at the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

In May 2021, Jay completed a MA degree in Individualized Studies at New York University and was recognized with the Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research for his thesis Coyotes, Urban Naturecultures, and Feral Cohabitation in the Anthropocene.