Biography

I’m a two-time Emmy award-winning documentary producer, director, writer, and editor. I’ve strategized, designed, and managed media and communication campaigns for non-profits, research organizations, and government institutions around the globe. I’ve covered diverse topics from indigenous land rights to economic fair trade to the future of autonomous technologies.

In general, I specialize in nonfiction storytelling, creative development, strategic communications, and multimedia project management. Currently, I help organizations turn complex concepts in science, technology, policy, ethics and space exploration into clear, compelling stories for film, video, podcasts and digital platforms.

As a media affiliate at The SETI Institute, I’ve been producing short documentaries about luminaries who are breaking boundaries in scientific discovery and space exploration.

Previously, I co-founded a research and media production company in Namibia, where I lived and worked for over a decade. I was a documentary producer, director, writer, and editor at PBS New Mexico, as well as a creative director for The Coffee Trust, a nonprofit organization working with coffee farming communities in Central America. I co-produced and co-hosted Space Forward, a podcast that featured interdisciplinary conversations about humanity’s future in space. I’ve worked with organizations including Nvidia, Lyft, Udacity,Theatre Embassy, The Ford Foundation, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, The French Development Agency, The Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, and UNAIDS.

I have a BA in International Development Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. More recently, I was summer graduate at the International Space University, where I collaborated on a team project that researched the application of space technologies to prevent, monitor, and mitigate global pandemics.

Awards

• Emmy — Arts & Entertainment — for creating, producing, directing, occasionally filming, and editing the PBS short documentary series Artisodes, 2009.

• Emmy — Advance Media — for producing and designing a PBS multimedia education project, 2009.

• Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Afrykamera Film Festival — for co-producing, co-directing, writing, and editing The Power Stone, 2011.

• Honors — IDFA and BANFF — for producing, directing, and editing the documentary short Master Positive, 2001.

Other Roles

• Mentor — Space Studies Program, International Space University, 2022.

• Mentor — PBS-POV Digital Labs, San Francisco, 2016.

• Speaker — The Future is Here with Interactive Media, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2015.

• Panelist — Documentary Distribution Panel, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2015.

• Art Exhibitor — Spoiled, an interactive digital graphic story at the Missoula Art Museum, 2015.

• Media Fellow — Power to the Pixel, London, 2014.

• Documentary Fellow — National Association of Latino Independent Producers, New Mexico Producers Academy, 2008.

• Researcher and Writer — Changing Resource Use in Namibia’s Lower Kuiseb River Valley: Perceptions from the Topnaar Community, Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, 1994.

• Volunteer Teacher — World Teach, Namibia, 1992.