Adventurous, independent filmmaker. Practical, business savvy producer. 

I’m a seasoned content producer and trusted partner to ad agencies, production companies, political campaigns, nonprofits and corporate clients. My varied background makes me a strong creative team leader - confident, adaptable, and quick to problem solve. I’m a big picture thinker who still minds the details. I care about the work and the process for making it. And I’m always seeking opportunities to create a positive social impact.

With the ad agency OKRP I led production on multi-million dollar integrated campaigns, creating content distributed across various platforms. I managed diverse teams, aggressive schedules, and budgets large and small. I also served as a department head with multiple direct reports - responsible for overseeing projects, scaling up and down to accommodate workflow, and strategizing for the best creative approaches to new projects and client business.

An on-going interest in social justice and politics led me to volunteer with local and state level political campaigns and ultimately, to pursue a masters degree in Public Administration. This experience helped advance my work on policy and public service driven content, like the COVID-19 Vaccine Awareness and early childhood workforce recruitment campaigns with the State of Illinois. I’ve also partnered with the political media agency AL Media Strategy on various Democratic campaigns including Stacey Abrams for Governor in Georgia.

Social activism is at the core of my independent film work. In college, I began corresponding with a Nicaraguan human rights attorney who was fighting for justice following the brutal murder of her husband. Together we created The Living Documents (2009), sharing her story as an activist targeted for her work to defend indigenous communities. The film aired on The Documentary Channel, Central American television networks and screened at festivals, universities and cultural venues. Walk All Night: A Drum Beat Journey (2016) premiered at the San Francisco Black Film Festival and made its way through the festival circuit across the US and Canada. This documentary follows a social worker as she initiates an ambitious project to take a group of young, black, Chicago street musicians to West Africa.

I have a BA in Film and Video from Columbia College Chicago and a MPA with a concentration in sustainable communities from Adler University.