Born in L.A. in 1986, I earned a BA and MA from Stanford in 2008, where I published several times and won the ‘Lopes Prize for Outstanding Writing’. Printed a short story in EstheticApostle magazine, produced a TV news show about the African diaspora and made documentary films for the UN in Haiti and Morocco.

I'm also an Investment Sales Broker | Director of Real Estate in L.A., managing 60 million in assets.

Projects include:
  • Personal profiles with La Asociación de Mujeres de Guatemala, profiling female Guatemalan refugees in Madrid, Spain.
  • Short film “Tagut” with Dar Si-Hmad for culture, education, and development in Ifni, Morocco.  Making film for NGO setting up nets to trap fog and bring potable water to a community.  Film includes exploring the questions of social impact for the women who spend 4 hours per day collecting water, and the background of the NGO leaders.
  • Soundlabs Music Festival in Roseto, Italy - produced 8 short clips of visiting artists embedded throughout the beachside town.
  • Sunshine House in Evia Island, Greece - produced a day-in-the-life short for the unique acroyoga/thai massage school and community.
  • Haiti NGOs Cordaid and film teaching with NGO-film schools Haiti Reporters and Eyes on Haiti.  Teaching Haitians storytelling through multimedia, and creating cinematic shorts for NGOs.
                               
·   2010: Freelance producer, Wikimedia foundation
  • Planned production for short films on Wikipedia’s impact throughout the developing world.                                   

 ·   2008-2009: Producer, KMTP-TV, Pan African and Local News, San Francisco
  • Minority Television Project (KMTP-TV) is a non-profit TV station with a mission of multiculturalism. Single-handedly produced, anchored, filmed, edited, networked, and fundraised for this 30 minute news show focused on African issues both on the continent and locally, that aired from 8:30-9pm every weeknight to 2.9 million viewers across the San Francisco Bay Area
  • In February 2009, created a YouTube channel with 22 local features on the African community in San Francisco including dancers, NGOs, scholars, and entrepreneurs that was ranked among YouTube’s MOST-WATCHED Non-profit YouTube channels
  • “African immigrants in the Bay Area step out of shadows” by Matt O'Brien, Oakland Tribune

·   2008:   Reporter, NPR-KQED, Daily Arts & Culture Online, San Francisco
  • Created and produced a new film feature for the web that merged audio-interviews with artists with visuals of their work

 ·   2008:   Reporter, New America Media, Daily Ethnic & Immigrant News Online, San Francisco
  • New America Media is an online newspaper that focuses on minority and immigrant issues.  I broke news on stories that are rarely given the spotlight in mainstream media, such as a debate on immigrants’ rights, a Latino poetry crawl in the Mission of San Francisco, the food crisis and how it affected food pantries throughout the city, and the personal story of an Iraqi man who fled from his post as a translator in Iraq to become a pastry chef in Berkeley

HONORS:       
·   2008:        Lopes Essay Prize, Stanford
  • Prestigious University award for excellence in writing from Feminist Studies department for published essay “The Woman Interview”

·   2007-2008:  Independent Research Film Grant, “Dance and Camera in Dublin,” Ireland
  • Granted funds from Stanford to make documentary on the development of the Dance Theater of Ireland

·   2007:  Luis Lujan Memorial Scholarship to ImPulsTanz, Vienna, Austria
  • Won award from Stanford Performing arts to take part in ImPulsTanz, the leading dance festival in Europe.  Literally jumped into intensive classes, dance laboratories, and performances for 3 weeks with cutting-edge contemporary movers from around the world

·   2007:  Clayman Research Jury Prize for “Best in Show” Outstanding Photography, Stanford
  • Won $300 prize for series of photographs that probed gender and sexuality in everyday life

·   2005: Boothe Prize Finalist, Excellence in Writing, Stanford
  • Eleven out of 3,000 freshmen nominated for this special recognition
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·   2004:  Music Center Visual Arts Finalist, Los Angeles
  • Out of 300 entries, dance photography exhibited in prestigious Santa Monica gallery