In the beginning, there was a plastic camera and a roll of Kodak T-max. I took photos of my belly button & spent hours in the dark room deciphering its shadows. It was love at first shutter, and my first shots toured galleries around the world.

Out of the dark room–sunny teenage summers assisting Martha Stewart Living shoots, organizing the Fairchild Aerial Surveys Archive, in NYC rolling out the red carpet for Samuel Adams and Big Red commercials, the occasional Guinness World Record with Carmen Electra. You know, 90s stuff.

Life, pain, trauma, healing, endless poetry and disposable cameras. . . the winding, rutty road to a B.S. in Journalism, emphasis on astronomy. Along the way, I reported for the Boulder Daily Camera, ran operations for Elephant Journal, organized various labor rights protests, and embedded with Pastores por la Paz to document an illegal humanitarian aid mission to Cuba.

That Saturn return came around, and I took a few years to wander the world, seeking some sort of peace, finding all sorts of trouble. I lived in my car, a tent, various trailers as I rock climbed my way across the west, then a year in a tipi in the Rocky mountains for a long cold winter, co-authoring my first published novel, Tears Run Dry: A Story of Courage in the Face of Poverty, Tribalism and Racism. I learned to dance flamenco in the chalk caves of Grenada, and wrote love poems to the rhythms of displacement kept deep in my bones, known by the wet walls and galloping mustangs and thick sunsets.

2013 found me in a haunted apartment on Venice Beach–the rent was unbeatable–working as executive assistant and taking on video & branding projects with my best friend and creative collaborator, Aly Nicklas.

In 2014, I moved to Seattle and began working alongside photographer & activist Aaron Huey. We co-founded Outsider Books, an experimental art book publishing company for which I wore many hats, from designer to editor to publisher. Smithsonian Magazine recognized our first trade title, Where the Heaven Flowers Grow, as one of the top ten photography books of 2015.

Crowdfunding became a habit of mine–Aly & I’s first co-directed documentary, Knee Deep, funded on Kickstarter; 6-year-old National Geographic photographer Hawkeye Huey’s book campaign went viral, and Aly and I founded the Born Wild Project on another viral campaign. I ran Sherpa Photo Fund, an international fundraising campaign with Outside Magazine and National Geographic, raising nearly half a million dollars for Sherpa families affected by that year’s tragedies on Everest, as well as an Instagram flash sale that raised 10k in a day. 

Riding the content trip wave, Aly Nicklas and I overlanded Baja, ran the 420-mile Oregon Coast Trail, mountain biked the Tibetan Plateau, delivering organic storylines, copy, photography, film, and social exposure for brands large and small.

We the People put all other projects on hold in the wake of the 2016 presidential elections. The Amplifier Foundation came to me needing campaign videos, strategy, management, PR and marketing assets. The result was one of the most successful art crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter history, raising 1.365 million dollars from over 22,000 backers. Our efforts gained major international press, and the art shared showed up at Women’s March events around the world, becoming international iconography of unity during divisive times.

The clouds called. In 2019 I moved to Portland, Oregon, where Aly and I formalized our media collaborative as Wolf & Scout, producing three years of Danner’s Go There campaign. The pandemic found me road tripping around the country from the caves of Oregon to the cliffs of Oahu with SkySight Motion Cinema, line producing their epic aerial flying theater film with Dynamic Attractions.

Today, I focus on impact-motivated short-form documentary films, as well as creating digital content and campaigns for mission-driven brands and organizations. I offer story producing, directing and writing services for both commercial and non-profit clients. I also consult and coach for book, film, event, and other creative endeavors at all stages. I work locally in the Pacific Northwest, and remotely with clients across the country.

I am represented by Foundry Literary + Media and hold a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder.