School
University of Oregon
Expertise
Car culture, automotive design, motorsport history
- During his senior year in college, Aidan successfully pitched a story about rally racing, which was chosen to be one of the lead feature stories in the 2025 edition of Flux magazine.
- As a freelance automotive journalist, he has gotten to experience cars from manufacturers like DMC, Ferrari, and Porsche from both the passenger's seat and driver's seat.
- One day, he hopes to cover the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este.
Experience
Aidan is a lifelong car enthusiast who discovered an interest in writing and journalism in high school. In order to combine these two interests, he chose to pursue a degree in journalism with a focus on the automotive industry and car culture. During his time at university, he covered local car culture and events and wrote profiles on people involved in the car community for both academic assignments and for a local news outlet. During his senior year, he wrote a long-form story about a local family in motorsport as a capstone project for his university's award-winning annual magazine. which served as a gateway into professional automotive journalism and set him on his path to SlashGear.
Education
Aidan has a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in philosophy and ethics.
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