Biography

I’m a two-time Emmy award-winning documentary producer, director, writer, and editor. I’ve strategized, designed, and managed 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. I specialize in non-fiction storytelling, content development, strategic communications, and creative project management.

I’m an affiliate at The SETI Institute developing a multimedia project, Star Goddesses, about women breaking boundaries in scientific discovery and space exploration. I co-produce and co-host Space Forward, a podcast featuring interdisciplinary conversations about humanity’s future in space. 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 in New Mexico, as well as creative director for The Coffee Trust, a non-profit working with coffee farming communities in Central America. As a freelance media and communications consultant, 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. I completed a professional development program at the International Space University, working 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, 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 for co-producing, co-directing, writing, and editing The Power Stone, Afrykamera Film Festival, 2011.

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

Other Roles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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