I'm a documentary filmmaker, immersive storyteller and journalist based in Oakland, California. I'm drawn to stories that explore the intersection of the criminal justice system, gender and race, and those that disrupt mainstream media representations.
I'm currently in post-production on the independent film, When I Say Africa, about enduring representations and stereotypes of the African continent. I'm also developing a documentary and/or interactive project about intimate partner violence. My immersive storytelling work includes After Solitary, a collaboration between Emblematic Group and PBS’s FRONTLINE, which was honored with the Jury Award for Room Scale VR at SXSW and ONA’s Excellence in Immersive Storytelling Award. I also directed and produced the Emmy-nominated documentary Tulia, Texas — co-produced with ITVS and broadcast on PBS Independent Lens — about a town torn apart by the racial injustices in America’s War on Drugs.
For nearly a decade I was a cinematographer and producer for the PBS series FRONTLINE/World, filming in Namibia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela and China. During that time I also filmed for United Nations Television in Bolivia, Ethiopia and Western Sahara, on independent productions in northern Chad and northern Uganda, and worked as a field produced for a National Geographic series in India, Guyana and Namibia.
My work has screened at film festivals around the world, been nominated for three News and Documentary Emmys, and honored with the Jury Award for Room Scale VR at SXSW, the top prize at the World VR Forum in Switzerland, and ONA’s Excellence in Immersive Storytelling Award. My films and VR pieces have been featured on Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines series, PBS NewsHour, FRONTLINE, MSNBC and in the New York Times. I'm a Continuing Lecturer in visual storytelling at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where I received her master's degree in documentary filmmaking.
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