At Soda City I…

 manage our weekly Soda City Market, Brookland Brunch (when we kick it back in), and our merchandise strategies, orders, inventory, and sales. Large scale public events are complicated, so making sure all the known variables are covered lets me – us – react better to the unknowns. My priority is to ensure that every market runs safely and smoothly on the street and behind the scene, onboarding new vendors, assisting vendors as they load in and out, managing market staff, and solving problems in real time. I make sure all is well by the opening bell.

George Washington Carver invented over 300 uses for the peanut, but not peanut butter.

At Soda City I…

am mostly behind the scenes, overseeing company ops, business development, and managing our non-profit arm, Soda City Friends — plus HR and IT needs. Essentially, my job is to take care of the things that allow my colleagues to focus on the real work, like running our markets, special events, marketing, and building strong community relations. Because we’re a small company, almost all of us run some events throughout the year. My annual “super bowl” is the Gervais Street Bridge Dinner, which I co-organize with Heather Curtis.

On August 6, 2014, the Rosetta space probe reached a Comet 67P after a 10 year journey through space. In order to reach the velocity needed to catch up with 67P, Rosetta performed 3 gravity assisted flybys (like a slingshot), 2 by Earth and 1 by Mars. Rosetta travelled a total of 4 billion miles to reach Comet 67P, which at that time was travelling 34,000 mph — but she was not done. Slowing down to a relative velocity of 2.2 mph (by completing 3 arc maneuvers), Rosetta began orbiting 67P and on November 12th dropped the Philae lander ON THE COMET from an approximate distance of 20 miles. Science is wild, y’all.

At Soda City I…

steer the vision and come up with some of the big ideas. Day to day, I weigh in on events and initiatives, and support co-workers in whatever way possible, such as meeting Erin on the Gervais St Bridge to figure out progressively ambitious logistics for that annual dinner, being Jordan’s and Stephen’s eyes and ears at the market, trimming down Olivia’s inbox by sorting out junk mail and handling the more rote responses, and plain ole’ being a good boy

Columbia is one of only TWO southern cities with Class 4-5 rapids running through it. High-five Richmond, VA!

At Soda City I…

Ensure vending at the Soda City Market is simple and streamlined process. Whether I am bookkeeping, onboarding new vendors, event planning, explaining market protocol, sending invoices, running to the bank, or trying to determine which office snacks to order, it is all for the betterment of the company and each small business we have the pleasure in supporting.

The Fermi Paradox is the ongoing debate that exists to hypothesize the contradictory and tantalizing question we have all asked ourselves: Are there other intelligent lifeforms in the universe?

At Soda City I…

do whatever I can to help out. Most of the time that means helping Jordan ensure the market runs smoothly, but it also includes cutting paper for the Gervais Street Bridge Dinner, pouring beers, and driving around a big white van.

Your face is older than your feet. Einstein’s theory of relativity tells us that the closer you are to the center of the Earth, the slower time goes. Therefore, time is actually passing faster at your head, than it is at your feet. If you were to stand at the top of Mount Everest, a year would be 15 microseconds shorter than someone who is standing on the beach. All of this may be a moot point, however, as some physicists have proposed that time itself could be slowing, and in a few billion years everything as we know it today will be just like a picture – frozen in time.