Biography

I’m a two-time Emmy award-winning documentary producer, director, writer, and editor. I’ve strategized and designed advocacy 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.

Currently, I’m an affiliate at The SETI Institute developing the multimedia project Star Goddesses about women breaking boundaries in scientific discovery and space exploration. I also co-produce and co-host Space Forward, a podcast featuring interdisciplinary conversations about humanity’s future in space. I mostly specialize in non-fiction storytelling, content development, strategic communications, and creative project management.

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 in New Mexico, and I served 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 Lyft, Udacity, UNAIDS, The Ford Foundation, Theatre Embassy, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, The French Development Agency, and The Desert Research Foundation of Namibia.

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 researching 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 educational 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 Namib-Naukluft Park”, Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, 1994.

• Volunteer Teacher, World Teach, Namibia, 1992.