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Award Winning
Writer, Producer, Editor

Taking radio, print, web and video projects from concept to completion including:

Research, Logistics, Crew Selection and Direction, Field Production, Interviewing, Writing and Editing.

ABOUT

Award Winning
Writer, Producer, Editor

Taking radio, print, web and video projects from concept to completion including:

Research, Logistics, Crew Selection and Direction, Field Production, Interviewing, Writing and Editing.

You can't get a job much better than mine. The people I interview, the things they teach me, the incredibly talented people with whom I collaborate inspire me every day.

I am so thankful for my beginnings in Detroit, Associate and Co-Producing with a remarkable documentary team, Bob Berg and Stephen Palackdharry. They taught me to love an image, and a beautiful turn of phrase. To listen. They believed in giving everything you had, working hard, caring first and foremost, and laughing a lot...an example I've tried to follow.

I'm most excited with the opportunity to highlight people and programs finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems. I've covered education, the environment, welfare reform, poverty, trafficking, programs that helped youth at-risk, gender equality issues, health, science and technology among others. In the past few years I've been fortunate to work with KQED covering social issues and the arts.

I carry all the people I've interviewed over the years with me. They've given me so much by sharing their stories, and I am eternally grateful.

AWARDS & HONORS

Emmy Award Michigan Region

A Time to Build
Co-Producer

Documentary follows a year-long exchange between Detroit's underserved students of color and the area's most affluent suburban white students.
Emmy Award Norcal Region

Earthscapes
Writer / Producer / Editor

Earthscape artist Andres Amador delights passersby on beaches around the world with his earthscape art...that goes out with the tide.
San Francisco Press Club Award

Mixing Paint with Positivity
Writer / Producer / Co-Editor

Scape Martinez uses what he calls the powerful tool of graffiti art to reach kids in East Palo Alto. He says "we write on stuff" to prove we're here."
Emmy Award Norcal Region

Cheryl Leonard Makes the Rocks Sing
Writer / Producer

Cheryl Leonard transports her audiences to The Arctic, with an entirely new kind of music in hopes of raising an alarm about global warming.
Emmy Award Norcal Region

Building Houses the Eco-Friendly Way
Writer / Producer

Virginia San Fratello and Ron Rael, take a revolutionary approach to building through 3-D printing natural materials like clay and salt.
Society of Professional Journalists Award

A Tie to the Land

A family struggles to hold on to a farm in their family for generations, amidst mounting economic and social strains.
Emmy Award Michigan Region

No Place Like School
Associate Producer

Hour-long documentary profiling the most effective programs in the country engaging inner-city students at risk.
San Francisco Press Club Award

Best Annual Report 2012

Annual Report brings to life The Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula as they tap into underserved kids' boundless potential.
Emmy Award Norcal Region

Brian Goggin: Keeper of Your Impossible Dreams

Over a year's time, captures the process of sculptor Brian Goggin's latest work, and irrepressible spirit.
Emmy Award Missouri Region

Ailey Dance Camp for Kids
Writer / Producer

Professional dancers from the Alvin Ailey Company teach inner-city youth faith in themselves through the discipline, joy, and discovery of dance.
  • Trafficking
  • Reporting on
  • Science
  • Homelessness
  • Mental health
  • Technology
  • Poverty
  • Gender equality
  • Arts
  • Education reform
  • Underserved youth
  • Environment