After teaching middle and high school for four years
both in the United States and overseas, Reed Watts
moved to Washington, DC, where he worked for
three years on the staff of a member of Congress. In
2002, he attended graduate school at the London
School of Economics in the United Kingdom. He
studied MSc History of International Relations
before accepting a position in Baghdad as part of
the U.S. Department of State Iraq Reconstruction
Managment Office.

Reed served as an advisor to the Iraq Commission
on Public Integrity for eleven months and returned
to Arlington, Virginia, where he and his wife bought
their first home. He continued to work on Iraq
reconstruction issues through the U.S. Agency for
International Development until being offered a
position as Special Assistant at the Pentagon.

It was then that Reed decided to turn his lifelong
passion for woodworking into a full-time
occupation. He started Cabinet Artisans and has
not looked back...