India
Scott has traveled to some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of South Asia. He has written about skeleton traders who deflesh human bodies and export the remains to American anatomy classrooms. In 2006, he helped uncover a network of kidney brokers who had been buying and selling organs to foreign medical tourists in South India. He has published stories about an all-out auto-rickshaw race across the state of Tamil Nadu and explored Chennai's e-waste junkyards where old computers are reduced to gold. He has seen a satellite bearing India's national dreams explode above the launch pad at a highly secure space center and investigated reports about foreign drug companies conducting illegal clinical trials on unsuspecting patients.

He lives in an apartment in Chennai with his wife Padma Govindan who is the founder of the Shakti Center for Women's reproductive and sexual health. She continues to be the inspiration for his work.

Writer
After graduating from Kenyon College, Scott became the senior editor of Manhattan Style magazine and stayed with the publication long enough to learn the world of model releases, fact checking and glossy magazines. He left the publication in 2001 and has since written freelance articles for a variety of newspapers, magazines, travel guides and television programs including WIRED, Discover, Marie Claire, net , National Geographic Television, GQ, the Wisconsin State Journal, Isthmus, Fodor's Travel Guides, Nerve.com, Dragonfire, India Today, Coreweekly and the Hindustan Times. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's program Day to Day. His blog Trailing Technology attracts thousands of visitors every month. He is a member of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). The title of his first book will probably be "Suicide Sutra", but he can't tell you any more about it than that.

Anthropologist
Scott received his Master degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2004. By 2005 he had completed all the coursework for the Ph.D. and recieved approval to begin his research on a project tentatively titled Televising Cosmopolitanism: Producing MTV in India. He withdrew from the program in 2006 and is now on an indefinite leave of absence.