Adams is doggedly curious about the lives of others and passionate about reaching new audiences craving deeply-reported, character-driven 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, Iraq, and Ukraine.

Most recently, he was an international correspondent at Vice News, where he and his team gained exclusive access to embed with several foreign militaries, including the Somali National Army's special operations unit known as "Danab Brigade," where he witnessed their fight against al-Shabaab in Lower Shabelle; French commandos during their final days of conflict in the Sahel; and Burkina Faso's armed forces just days after they overthrew the government. He's also spent time with militias and paramilitaries in Iraq, Syria, and Mali as part of his reporting on the international "war on terror." He and his team also traveled several times to Haiti to report on the country's ongoing political crisis and were the last American journalists to interview Haitian President Jovenel Moïse before his assassination. He won two national Emmy® Awards during his time at Vice for his reporting on the demonstrations in Minneapolis surrounding the murder of George Floyd.

Before joining Vice in 2019, he worked at ABC10 in Sacramento, California, where he brought his viewers on journeys to places like Afghanistan, the U.S./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, and write, and edit his documentaries allowed him to work using a small footprint and gain exclusive access to subjects who may have otherwise turned away bigger crews. He was awarded 9 Emmys during his time at the station, including outstanding achievement in documentary and cinematography for his film on the war in Afghanistan, which he solely produced, shot, and edited after spending two weeks embedded with U.S. and Afghan forces.

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 has 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.