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I am a visual storyteller, producer, photographer, and editor with more than 20 years of experience creating documentary, nonprofit, and advocacy-driven media. My work is rooted in a belief that meaningful stories can connect people, preserve memory, and bring attention to lives and places that might otherwise be overlooked.After earning a degree in digital film production, I joined Arkansas PBS as Executive Producer of its World War II oral histories project, In Their Words. Over five years, our archiving team preserved more than 500 interviews with veterans and civilians from the Second World War. Those testimonies became the foundation for an award-winning documentary and educational website, which premiered alongside Ken Burns’ PBS series The War.From 2009 to 2019, I worked as a freelance producer, shooter, and editor, focusing primarily on documentary and nonprofit advocacy films. That work took me around the world, including a 2014 reporting assignment inside Iraq covering the rise of ISIS for Al Jazeera News. Back home, I also served in leadership roles within Arkansas’s film community, including Festival Director of the 2015 Little Rock Film Festival and Director of Events for the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival from 2013 to 2017.In 2019, I joined Winrock International as a video producer and international photographer based in Washington, D.C., documenting the organization’s work across some of the world’s most complex challenges in underreported regions. I helped bring attention to frontline efforts in climate resilience, sustainable agriculture, and economic development while staying centered on the people most affected by those challenges. Today, I bring a documentary eye and a storyteller’s instinct to projects that require trust and emotional honesty.“I believe in the power of a well-told story. Since the earliest days of humanity, storytelling has been our most enduring tool for remembering, teaching, influencing, and, above all, connecting.”
The Hi8 Tapes
My grandparents gifted me a Hi8 camcorder for high school graduation. It sparked a habit of documenting everyday life as it unfolded around me. Twenty years later, I digitized the collection. As I reviewed the footage, it felt like opening a time capsule. Moments I had long forgotten were suddenly alive again. That experience led me to make this video, an attempt to create a relatable mosaic from those fragments.There are so many important people I wish I could have included, but some moments were lost in moves or simply never recorded. The stretch between the graduation camcorder breaking and my first iPhone in 2008 feels especially thin. These faces may be total strangers to you, but the arc is universal. Time is pressing us forward, and change comes with it. 
