
SELECTED work
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Fact Checking a feature film on the Right–to-die Movement
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Working with an Oscar–winning director on a short film for a pro–Harris group focusing on the impacts of Biden/Harris healthcare policies, including booking contributors (one of the final two we featured I found and booked personally), finding and organizing archival, and managing our shoot
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Very Scary People
Multitasking across recre and interview shoot logistics, including working with vendors across the country
Completely reworked the organizational system for planning shoots from the ground up
Researching three two–hour long deep dives simultaneously, including finding and booking contributors, submitting FOIAs, and assembling timelines, archival, and fact sheets for reference by key stakeholders
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Worked across two shows, covering everything from research and booking, recreations production, and field interviews on tight budgets and short turnarounds.
Sins of the South:
Performed a dual research and field AP role, booking interviews and helping conduct them
Worked on a two week turnaround for every episode, and helping lead a team that captures B–Roll, recre, and interview footage all across the Southern U.S.
Multitasked across managing our production budget, securing releases, booking travel, submitting FOIAs, writing interview questions, procuring archival, and helping lead interviews on sensitive subjects
Final Moments
Worked across two teams simultaneously, with full responsibility for casting 106 actors for our recreations.
Led coordination between our producer and director and our cast, wardrobe artist, and HMU artist.
Assisted in managing shoot logistics in collaboration with the director, producer, and showrunner.
Found 45 new stories matching the criteria set by the show, along with corresponding archival
Found contact info and handled outreach for participants in 20 cases, including booking some of the most important and sensitive interviews of the season
Wrote 24 outlines for cases, and turned 13 of those into pitches, the majority of which were accepted
Created around two dozen graphics to accompany pitches to the network
Wrote 13 full episode scripts
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Following an internship, I worked in a as a series production assistant and a researcher on two different projects, one much longer than the other
Murder on Middle Beach
Compiled 20 dossiers of original research and presented them on camera for an investigative series
Field Produced a 10–day shoot out of state
Developed and ran all archival processes, managing 5 interns and PAs to ensure proper organization
Found and conducted outreach to a number of expert consultants and interview subjects
Ingested and analyzed sources including sealed case files, business directories, and court documents, and made several breakthroughs that helped expand our investigation
Created graphics both for investigative use and for presentation on camera•Automated numerous tasks with bespoke algorithms in spreadsheets
Performed QC on a variety of aspects of the final series, including GFX, text spotting, and timing
Ensured legal compliance in regards to fact–checking, fair use, and releases
Pulled, organized, and scanned archival material
Untitled Octopus Series
Conducted research at the development/preproduction phase of a nature documentary for Amazon
Created a shoot plan based on research into animal life cycles and behaviors
Gathered archival related to cultural perceptions of the animals on which the project focused
EDUCATION
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A.B. in Visual and Environmental Studies: Film and Visual Studies
Cum Laude In Field
Activities: Film & TV Criticism, Editing, Polo (for the horses, not the people)
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2 year formerly all-male college in the california desert
Worked as a cowboy, cook, cleaner, carpenter, plumber & more
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Studied Arabic exclusively for a year at the Center for Language and Culture, Marrakech, Morocco while in high school on a State Department Scholarship