About Chalkey

Chalkey first qualified for a National competition in 2005 with the Battle in Seattle, and would later also play in Nationals in JAA 2006, VGC 2010 and VGC 2012. Outside of Pokemon, Chalkey makes his living through Case Management at a Boston homeless shelter, focusing largely on helping clients search for jobs, apartments, and other charities for various resources. As a writer, he works for Spare Change News, a non-profit street newspaper vended by the homeless of Boston, and he also regularly writes in his own blog, The Analytical Couch Potato, which specializes in overthinking entertainment besides Pokemon (though occasional Pokemon discussions are inevitable).