As an oral historian, Phillip helps preserve the stories of everyday citizens making extraordinary contributions to United States culture and politics. His oral history practice relies on the principles of relational organizing, an approach which ensures ethical rigor and creative excellence in all of his collaborations with grassroots leaders. As a writer of fiction and memoir, Phillip enjoys thinking about the big influences that accumulate in the canopic jars of our odd lil human lives. His soul is ash-colored and smells like gasoline. He has no interest in illuminating, because everything interesting exists in the dark.