Chase is a multimedia journalist and content journeyman who is always on the move. He has explored the U.S. by van, motorcycle, and freight train, backpacked throughout China and southeast Asia, worked as a bike messenger and a Christmas tree salesman in New York City, reported on politics and public policy in New Jersey and Brooklyn, and recently spent a summer in Nepal, writing for the The Kathmandu Post. Chase obtained a master's degree from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2019, and just finished serving as an assistant editor at American Heritage, as part of a fellowship with the Poynter Institute.