An overzealous college newspaper in Seattle turned Andrew toward journalism, and his decision to be a journalist took him to the Washington State Legislature, Kenya, the Nevada State Legislature, Orlando, and Spartanburg, S.C. He's written for the Seattle Times, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, and he was a health reporting fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and health reporting intern via the Kaiser Family Foundation. He once rode a bicycle around Mt. Kilimanjaro on assignment in Tanzania, and he spent a six-month stint as an English teacher in an elementary school in Seoul, South Korea, returning for the first time to the country where he was born.