Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Justin has never been one to sit still. After graduating from Georgetown University in Washington, DC with a degree in government, Justin helped build one of the first political coverage websites for CNN/TIME and then an early around-the-world site called The Digital Traveller, travelling to over 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America in a year. He worked on a presidential campaign, ghostwrote a bestselling book and reported on the War on Terror from Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of a team for CBS 60 Minutes II. He co-founded and served as the managing director of a documentary film school in Sámara, Costa Rica for four years and directed a film on the Iranian Hostage Crisis, narrated by Walter Cronkite. Prior to the pandemic, Justin was a food writer in Los Angeles, exploring subjects like how to make the best tacos al pastor, apprenticing with a master pastrami maker and foraging for ingredients to make a unique seaweed-based gin.  He also spent time as a firefighter in los angeles county. He is a lifelong fisherman, loves roasting whole hogs and smoking large cuts of meat, homebrewing hoppy beers and has extensively studied pizza and sushi making.  He’s been known to visit seven or eight taco trucks before breakfast and co-founded a wild pizza contest called Pizzapalooza (dress code: way too much pepperoni print). But he’s probably happiest shucking a bag of oysters, eating some steamed Dungeness crab he caught that morning and drinking an IPA with family and friends. Justin is proud to volunteer with the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 25, based in Vesuvius.