The venue changes. The question doesn't.

The Beginning

I learned about connection in places where it matters most—deployed with the Army, where trust isn't abstract. It's survival. The bonds that form under pressure. The communities that hold each other together when everything else falls apart.

The Research

Then I studied it. Clinical psychology. Group dynamics. Trauma. Why some communities heal and others harm. 500+ citations later, I understood the science. But understanding wasn't enough.

The Building

So I started building. Psynergic Digital. DramaLlama. Platforms for communities that mainstream tech ignores. LGBTQ+ Asian drama fans scattered across sketchy pirate sites now have a home.

The Writing

And I write about it. Romance novels. Because stories are another way to explore the same questions—what makes people stay?

The Assessment

The research training had a second use. Synthesizing a body of studies and grading how much confidence it deserves is a specific discipline—the one behind my published meta-analysis—and it's exactly what the fight over social-media harm now needs. So I built Meridian Evidence & Causation: an independent practice that tells funders, insurers, and counsel how strong the science behind platform-harm claims really is, graded honestly, including where it's weak.