Audio
Ron has produced, engineered, and edited podcasts since 2010. His audio work has been featured on Colorado Public Radio, Rooftop Audible, F+W Media, and numerous independent podcasts. He is currently a consulting producer for Golden Peak Media; producer of Fiber Nation, a podcast about the history and science of textiles; and producer of the Grawlix Saves the World on the Starburns Audio Network,
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Writing & Editing
After almost eight years as a high school English teacher, Ron became a freelance journalist in 2008. His work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, websites, trade publications, literary journals, and more. He is a former blogger for PsychologyToday.com and the former male-perspective columnist for Complete Woman magazine. His adventure lifestyle writing has been featured in publications such as Backpacker, Mountain Bike, Bicycling, Draft, Best Health, 5280, Westword, and Breckenridge magazine. He is currently an equities and credit research editor for Nordea Bank.
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Events
Ron has served as a producer, host, performer, technical supervisor, consultant, and volunteer for numerous events over the last decade. He is currently the producer and co-host of The Narrators, an award-winning live storytelling show; the tech & venues manager for High Plains Comedy Festival; and the tech director for DINK, the Denver Independent Comic & Arts Expo. He has collaborated on special events with organizations such the Denver Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver Film Festival, Buntport Theater, Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, the Flobots, Stories on Stage, and Warm Cookies of the Revolution. Ron has also been a guest speaker at Metro State University, the American Society of Journalists & Authors’ annual conference, the Art& Summit, Lighthouse Writer’s Lit Fest, AIGA Colorado’s BUZZ, and more. He has also officiated at least half a dozen weddings and proudly notes that all of those couples are still married.
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Biography
Ron was born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico. He graduated from high school at 15 years old and moved to Colorado in 1996. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado in Boulder and a Master’s degree in Organizational & Professional Communications from the University of Denver.
From 2001 to 2008, Ron served as a teacher and administrator at Boulder Preparatory High School, a small charter school for underrepresented and disenfranchised youth in crisis. During his time at the school, he taught a wide variety of subjects and performed in administrative roles such as Office Manager, Registrar, and Director of Studies. During his time as Director of Studies, he helped Boulder Prep become the first school in North America to implement the Education for Peace curriculum, a unity-based academic model that was originally designed for students in post-genocidal Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ron met his wife Lisa on a volunteer trail-building project in 2004. He fell irreparably in love and the two were married in 2006. They currently live in Denver with their two children, Maddie and Lila.
In 2008, Ron and Lisa learned that their oldest child Maddie was deaf. Ron left his beloved teaching job to become a stay-at-home parent to Maddie and their newborn sibling Lila. He began freelancing that same year, initially writing for magazines and other small publications. His business, Waterday Media, soon expanded to include web development and other design work. Lisa joined Ron’s business in 2010, using her project management and business analysis expertise to transform Ron’s freelance work into a successful and sustainable family business.
In 2010, Ron also became a co-host and producer of Denver Diatribe, a local news and culture podcast that was voted Denver’s best podcast in 2011. That experience thrust him into the worlds of podcasting and Denver’s creative community, where he has happily remained ever since. He is now a producer of The Narrators live show and podcast, High Plains Comedy Festival, the Denver Independent Comic & Arts Expo, the Grawlix Saves The World podcast, Fiber Nation podcast, and more.