Adams is doggedly curious about the lives of others and passionate about reaching new audiences craving deeply-reported, character-driven, long-form storytelling captured with cinematic style. He has traveled to more than 50 countries and reported from many of the world’s on-going conflicts, including Afghanistan, Somalia, and Ukraine.

Before joining VICE News as a correspondent, he worked at ABC10 in Sacramento, California, where he brought his viewers on journeys to places like Afghanistan, the US/Mexico border, Puerto Rico, and into California’s deadliest wildfires, telling the stories of those threatened by war, natural disaster, political repression, and gang violence. His ability to produce, report on-camera, shoot cinema-quality visuals, write, and edit his own documentaries have allowed him to work using a small footprint and gain exclusive access to subjects who may have otherwise turned away bigger crews.

Prior to ABC10, Adams worked as a multimedia breaking news reporter for The Indianapolis Star from 2013-2016. Using innovative digital reporting techniques, he elevated the paper to the number one source of breaking crime news in the city. To accompany many of his stories, he produced breaking news videos and short documentaries for the paper's digital audience, one of which screened at the Indiana Black Expo Film Festival in 2016. He also used his role as a breaking news reporter to launch several long-form projects, including an examination of the police department’s crisis intervention team, the state’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, and an investigation into the treatment of female prisoners suffering from mental health issues.

Additional print, photo and video work have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, Reuters, Al Jazeera, The Weather Channel, Chicago Social Magazine, Denver’s Westword, The Lexington Herald-Leader, The Louisville Courier-Journal, Newcity and more.

Adams was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in its suburbs. After a short stint in Los Angeles nursing an unsuccessful acting career, he moved to Boston and received his bachelor's degree in print and multimedia journalism from Emerson College. When he’s not writing or behind the camera for work, he’s often traveling the world with his wife, albeit still behind the camera.