Hi there! I’m Jared, an ambitious multimedia writer with over 10 years of experience in screenwriting, film production, and creative writing. In 2023 I earned my Bachelors in Media Studies and Philosophy from SUNY Oneonta. My passion for writing has taken me through innumerable worlds and adventures, and has taught me an endless amount about how to share my passion and wisdom with the world.

During my undergrad years, my love and desire for a way to spread positivity and share life lessons through storytelling led me to philosophy, where I found a new passion for analytical and critical thinking. Learning to understand how arguments are made through scholarly and fictional writing remarkably improved my own creative writing, putting purpose and reason behind every story I told.

For the last three years a major focus of my creative writing pursuits has been in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign I run with friends. The Sunlands has given me hours upon hours of experience with worldbuilding and improvisation, learning to speak and write from many unique perspectives.
For some deep dives into my worldbuilding writing, check out the Sunlands page here!

Beyond that, my education in high school and early college gave me a lot of experience in screenwriting and filmmaking, getting an intimate understanding of the full production process. This especially helped me improve upon my dialogue, thinking more critically about how people actually speak and the unique dialects which make us, as people, different and unique.

I was fortunate enough in 2022 to attend SUNY Oneonta’s reknowned undergraduate philosophy conference. For 2023’s conference, I found myself with a second major in philosophy and taking on co-chairing the conference, while also working on my own thesis. The conference gave me the great honor of working alongside our wonderful student body and faculty, as well as to introduce the legendary bioethicist Doctor Carl Elliott.

My thesis, the One Wager for Life, is a personal piece as well as a scholarly one. My upbringing taught me that while spirituality and a search for truth are important, nothing is more essential than the moments we have on the planet. In my thesis I argued against Pascal’s Wager, the idea that you should wager that God exists because to wager against it sees impossible odds. My take, OWL (the one wager for life) argues that we should do the opposite; wager that this is the only life we have, because in the infinite possibilities of what gods/spirits/etc. may exist, we can only ever prove that we are here. Read my thesis here for more!