An experienced writer, producer, and information designer, Matt Baume ensures that information flows smoothly throughout AFER’s operations. For the last decade, he has worked as a researcher, journalist, blogger, and documentary photographer in San Francisco, contributing to news outlets that include NBC, The Bay Area Reporter, Queerty, and SF Weekly. During that time he created Marriage News Watch, a weekly video news show that covers marriage equality around the world. Baume also designed online information-sharing tools for organizations ranging from Lucasfilm to puppetry guilds. A New Englander with a degree in film from Emerson College, he currently resides in Los Angeles.