Biography

I’m a two-time Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, director, writer, and editor. I’ve created non-fiction stories and media campaigns for non-profits, research organizations, and government institutions around the globe, covering diverse topics from indigenous land rights to economic fair trade to the future of autonomous technologies. My current beat spans space science and space policy stories.

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

Previously, I founded a research and media production company in Namibia and South Africa, where I live and worked for over a decade. I then worked at PBS New Mexico as a documentary producer, director, writer, and editor. Thereafter, I was creative director for The Coffee Trust, a nonprofit promoting fair trade and alleviating poverty for coffee farming communities in Central America. As a freelancer throughout, 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.

During the pandemic I attended the International Space University’s summer program, conducting research on applications of space technologies to prevent, monitor, and mitigate global outbreaks. With fellow research colleagues, I co-produced and co-hosted Space Forward, a podcast featuring interdisciplinary conversations about humanity’s future in space exploration.

I have a BA in International Development Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.