Save the North Shore Birth Center, Fall 2008

In October and November of 2008, I led the Campaign to Save the North Shore Birth Center in Beverly, MA and served as the campaigners' media spokesperson. When the hospital was unresponsive to our pleas to keep this natural birthing center open, we organized a demonstration to attract media attention. The story was reported nationally; In the process, I was interviewed by many media outlets, including WCVB Channel 5 in Boston.

An archive of media coverage of the Campaign to Save the North Shore Birth Center is available here.

TSA Cupcake Incident, December 2011

In December 2011, I used a humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach to critique the TSA after they confiscated a cupcake from my family's lunch bag. My original piece, published at Boing Boing, led to international media attention. A sampling of this coverage is below.

Television:

The Associated Press:

• Associated Press (2011, Dec. 24). Mass. woman says TSA agent in Vegas confiscated frosted cupcake as possible security threat.The Washington Post (and elsewhere).
• Small, Matt. (2011, Dec. 24). The story of a confiscated cupcake [radio interview].