SELECTED work

    • Fact Checking a feature film on the Right–to-die Movement

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 2 year formerly all-male college in the california desert

    Worked as a cowboy, cook, cleaner, carpenter, plumber & more

  • Studied Arabic exclusively for a year at the Center for Language and Culture, Marrakech, Morocco while in high school on a State Department Scholarship