As a correspondent and contributing editor for Native Americas, Cornell University's quarterly journal of hemispheric indigenous issues, he won three awards from the Native American Journalists Association for his reportage from Nicaragua to Arizona between 1996 and 2000.
He also served as news editor at High Times in the 1990s, covering the global war on drugs, and was a regular contributor to New York's Guardian newsweekly in its final years. He continues to cover the drug war beat for High Times.
As a longtime activist in New York City, he has been involved in a wide variety of struggles, including solidarity work for the civil resistance in Syria and Iraq as well as Mexico's Zapatistas and other indigenous movements in Latin America.