About Me
Winner of the 2020 Women Transforming Media Award, I have been a documentary filmmaker since 2000. I have extensive experience in multimedia storytelling, executive producing, fundraising, and non-profit management in executive leadership roles. I manage three production companies — Unladylike Productions (founder), Audacious Women Productions (co-founder), and Inspiration Films (co-founder) — and served twice as Interim Executive Director of the Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit journalism organization Futuro Media (in 2016-2017 and 2021-2022). I was the creator, executive producer, director, and writer of UNLADYLIKE2020, an innovative animated documentary series about unsung women who changed America at the turn of the 20th century and the women who now follow in their footsteps, which premiered on PBS’s flagship biography series American Masters in 2020 in honor of the centennial of women’s suffrage, and has reached over 6 million viewers to date. I spent five years on the production staff of National Geographic Television & Film, reporting from the jungles of the Amazon to the Himalayan Mountains. As a story producer for PBS’s international affairs series Wide Angle from 2005 to 2009, I worked on a dozen documentaries covering issues such as legal reform in China, human rights in Zimbabwe, and race relations in Brazil. I produced the Wide Angle program Class of 2006 about women’s rights in Morocco, which won an International Documentary Association Award. Pioneers of Thirteen, a 6-hour series I produced to commemorate the flagship PBS station’s 50th anniversary, was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards. I was a Producer and Writer for the Climate Reality Project, an environmental initiative presented by Al Gore at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. I was the Series Producer for America By The Numbers, a PBS series telling underreported stories about America’s changing demographics, and for Humanizing America, a digital shorts series for NBCNews.com profiling the diversity of the American electorate. As an Executive Producer, I am currently mentoring a team of disabled filmmakers to create an accessible digital shorts series for American Masters titled Renegades about historical figures with disabilities and how they transformed America.
Filmography
Executive Producer, RENEGADES. 6 x 12-min. PBS/American Masters, 2024. Premiere at The Kennedy Center.
Executive Producer/Director/Writer, SEARCHING FOR AUGUSTA SAVAGE. 1 x 24-min. PBS/American Masters, 2024. Winner of silver Telly Award in Biography.
Creator/Executive Producer/Director/Writer, UNLADYLIKE2020. 26 x 10-min & 1 x 60-min. PBS/American Masters, 2020. Winner of 2021 Telly Award, 2021 Imagen Award for Best Short Film, and My Hero Project’s 2020 Women Transforming Media Award. Nominated for 2021 NAACP Image Award, Primetime Emmy, IDA Award, and Webby.
Series Producer, AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS. 8 x 30-min & 1 x 60-min. PBS, 2014 & 2016. Nominated for 2017 Imagen Award for Best Informational Program.
Series Producer, HUMANIZING AMERICA. 9 x 5-min. NBCNews.com, 2016
Producer/Writer, 24 HOURS OF REALITY. 5 x 5-min. The Climate Reality Project, 2015
Producer/Writer, ACCEPTANCE. 1 x 10-min. The Nantucket Project, 2015
Producer, CHINESE AMERICAN: EXCLUSION/INCLUSION. 2 x 5-min. New-York Historical Society, 2014
Producer, PIONEERS OF THIRTEEN. 4 x 90-min. Thirteen/WNET, 2012-2013. Nominated for 4 New York Emmy Awards.
Line Producer, OBAMA 2008-2012. 1 x 60-min. FRANCE 2, 2012
Story Producer, THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE. 1 x 90-min. Festival release, 2011 at Berlin Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival. Theatrical release, 2012 in France, Canada, Mexico, Germany and U.S. Winner of Caligari Award at Berlin Film Festival, Teddy Award for Best Documentary, Grand Prize at Indielisboa, Prix Louis Marcorelles and Prix des Bibliothèques at Cinema du Reel.
Supervising Producer, AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION. 1 x 120-min. PBS, 2011
Line Producer, PHILIP ROTH: UNMASKED. 1 x 90-min. ARTE, 2011; PBS/American Masters, 2013
Producer/Writer, PUT FOOD FIRST. 1 x 3-min. The World Bank, 2011
Producer/Writer, GOING GREEN NEW YORK. 1 x 60-min. Thirteen/WNET, 2010
Story Producer, EYES OF THE STORM. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2009
Story Producer, THE MARKET MAKER. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2009
Story Producer, CROSSING HEAVEN’S BORDER. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2009
Editor, FIELD TRIP TO THE DMZ. 1 x 8-min. PBS.org/Wide Angle, 2009
Producer, UNDERGROUND ZIMBABWE. 1 x 8-min. PBS.org/Wide Angle, 2009
Director/Producer/Editor, TANGIER TREEHOUSE. 1 x 60-min. PBS, 2007
Story Producer, BRAZIL IN BLACK AND WHITE. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2007. Nominated for 2008 IDA Award.
Story Producer, THE PEOPLE’S COURT. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2007. Winner of 2007 Cine Golden Eagle Award. Nominated for 2008 IDA Award.
Producer, CLASS OF 2006. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2006. Winner of 2007 IDA Award.
Story Producer, RANSOM CITY. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2006
Story Producer, BORDER JUMPERS. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2005
Story Producer, GUTTED. 1 x 60-min. PBS/Wide Angle, 2005. Winner of 2006 Cine Golden Eagle Award Special Jury Prize for News Analysis.
Field Producer, TRUE FACE OF HURRICANES. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2005
Producer, CHASING THE AMERICAN DREAM. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2004
Associate Producer, INTO THE LOST WORLD. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2004. Nominated for 2005 Emmy Award for Best Science and Nature Documentary.
Associate Producer, THE WAR NEXT DOOR. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2003
Associate Producer, MIRACLE DOCTORS. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2003
Story Development Researcher, GIRL POWER. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2004. Nominated for 2005 Emmy Award for Best Science and Nature Documentary.
Story Development Researcher, IN THE SHADOW OF SADDAM. 1 x 30-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2003
Story Development Researcher, GROWING UP AT GROUND ZERO. 1 x 30-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2002
Story Development Researcher, RAISING THE U.S.S. MONITOR. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2002
Story Development Researcher, MOCHE MURDER MYSTERIES. 1 x 60-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2002
Story Development Researcher, LEMUR RESCUE. 1 x 30-min. MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer, 2001
Production Assistant, CHINA IN THE RED. 1 x 120-min. PBS/FRONTLINE, 2003