EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FILMMAKER & CONSULTANT

2003 – present

• Write, direct, produce, and edit projects across multiple platforms & genres.

• Selected Clients: IBM, Condé Nast, Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, WIRED, YouTube, Etsy

• Selected Consulting Work

  • Dizz (Nana Duffuor, forthcoming) - Narrative Short

  • Our League (Sam Cullman, 2022, ITVS) – Doc Short

  • Halloween 1987 (Hansen Bursic, 2022) - Narrative Short

INSTRUCTOR

2014 – present

• Decoding Culture: Bullshit — Night School Bar, Durham NC (2026)

• Decoding Culture: Technofeudalism — Night School Bar, Durham NC (2026)

• How to Write a Screenplay — Night School Bar, Durham NC (2026)

• Seminar: How to Read Film — Night School Bar, Durham NC (2025)

  • Co-taught with Victoria Bouloubasis and Nicole Berland

• Céline Sciamma’s Queer Cinema— Night School Bar, Durham NC (2025)

• Making Non-Fiction Comics— Night School Bar, Durham NC (2024, 2026)

• Sex Work on Screen — Night School Bar, Durham NC (2024)

• How to Script Comics— Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University (2019)

• Making Comics — Temple University (2018)

• Volunteer Instructor - BAYCAT, San Francisco, CA (2014-2016)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Elon University | Cinema & Television Arts | Elon, NC | 2020 – 2026

• CTA 4999 Undergraduate Research

  • Mentored 20 students in a screenwriting workshop I created at Elon to mirror a writers’ room. Students wrote short films, tv series, and feature films.

  • Mentored 5 students as they completed their BFA thesis projects, from short films to feature length screenplays.

• CTA 4998 Undergraduate Honors Research

  • Mentored 4 students in completing their honors thesis projects, 2 short films, 1 comic, and 1 feature length screenplay.

• CTA 4975 Entertainment Media Issues and Research

  • I created this class from the ground up after I helped restructure the curriculum for my department.

• CTA 3560 Narrative Aesthetics

• COR 3500 Analyzing the Graphic Novel

  • I pitched and created this film to be taught in the university core capstone curriculum.

• CTA 2160 Writing for Television & Cinema

• COM 2200 Creating Multimedia Content

• CTA 2560 Entertainment Media & Society (discontinued Spring 2025)

Senior Producer & Editor

ITVS | San Francisco, CA | 2015-2016

• Produced and edited documentaries for PBS’s Independent Lens and POV.

• Selected Partners: The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, NPR News, KQED News, Salon, PBS Newshour

Senior Producer

WIRED | San Francisco, CA | 2013-2015

• Re-built and managed in-house video department. Directed, produced, edited all videos.

• Selected Clients: 9/11 Museum, Disney/Pixar, Ducati, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Dropbox, Oakley, AutoDesk, Acura

• Awards

  • 2 Society of Publication Designers Awards (2015)

  • D&AD Golden Pencil (2015)

  • Vimeo Staff Pick for Behind the Scenes w/ Edward Snowden (2014)

Editor / Lead AssT. Editor / Asst. Editor

LA, CA | 2003-2009

• Assisted, online edited, and offline edited broadcast and reality TV productions for Freemantle Media, 51 Minds Production, 3Ball Productions, WPT Entertainment.

• As Lead AE, I managed a team of AEs, coordinated with producers and editors to prep episodes for editing, and prepared tapes for broadcast.

• Channels: NBC, VH1, The Travel Channel, Oxygen

Video Producer & Event Coordinator

Moj Mahdara & Associates | Los Angeles, CA | 2005-2006

• Coordinated large-scale events. Introduced video to the agency’s marketing strategy.

• Selected Clients: Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Otis College of Art & Design, Coachella Music Festival, Motorola, Myspace, Quiksilver, DKNY, Harajuku Lovers, XBOX

EDITOR - FESTIVALS / CONFERENCES / PUBLICATIONS

• Womb Envy (Song Ha, forthcoming) – Narrative Short

• The Trans Trucker Project (Hansen Bursic, forthcoming) - Doc Short

  • NewNarratives Grant, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (2025)

  • I coordinated an episode of Embodied with Anita Rao (NPR) who interviewed our protagonist about the life of trans truckers.

• What Water Holds (Kristal Sotomayor, forthcoming) - Doc Short

  • Funded by Firelight Media (2025-6)

• Rainbow Girls (Nana Duffuor, 2025) - Narrative Short

  • SFFilm Rainin Screenwriting Grant (2025)

  • Frameline Completion Grant (2025)

  • Top 3 Finalists for the Iris Prize (2025)

  • NewFest Awards (2025)

    • Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short

    • Audience Award for Best Narrative Short

  • New Orleans Film Festival Audience Award (2025)

  • Santa Cruz International Film Festival Best Student Produced Short (2025, MFA Thesis Film, Columbia University)

  • YouTube Short of the Week (2026)

• By Design (Moitri Ghosh, 2025) - Narrative Short

  • Funded by Tasveer Film Fund / Netflix Fund for Creative Equity

• Asha (Moitri Ghosh, 2025) - Narrative Short

  • Funded by NewFest and Concord Originals Sound & Scene QTBIPOC Short Film Grant

• all the words but the one (Nava Mau, 2024) - Narrative Short

  • Selected for the Iris Prize (2024)

  • YouTube Short of the Week (2025)

• Trans Heaven, Pennsylvania (Hansen Bursic, 2024) - Doc Short

  • ReelQ Pittburgh LGBTQ Film Festival Best Documentary Short

  • Best Documentary Short Nominations

    • NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (2026)

    • Appalachian Queer Film Festival (2024)

• (in)convenience (Alexandra Greenspan, 2023) - Narrative Short

  • San Francisco Independent Film Festival Audience Award for Best Narrative Short

  • Wicked Queer Film Festival Best in Show

  • San Francisco Frozen Film Festival Best First-Time Director

  • Out Here Dayton Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short

• Waking Hour (Nava Mau, 2019) - Narrative Short

  • NewFest Audience Award (2019)

• Jose & Mr. Ramos (Jackie Mow, Laura Pacheco, 2016) - Doc Short

  • ITVS Documentary Short

  • Published on NPR and PBS NewsRoom

  • Screened at PBS Online Film Festival

• Sophie & Ben (Sophie Sartain, 2016, ITVS) - Doc Short

  • ITVS Documentary Short

  • Screened on PBS Independent Lens and American Film Showcase

  • Published on NPR, the Atlantic, and KQED

• Marry the Movement (Sowjanya Kudva, 2013) - Promo for Southerners on New Ground

  • Published on The Nation, the Human Rights Campaign, Colorlines, the Huffington Post, and more.

  • At the time, SONG had 2K members and the promo was viewed 10K times within the first week of its publication.

• All of Us, North Carolina (Sowjanya Kudva, 2012) - Educational Feature Documentary

  • Screened at 7 national conferences

• Into the Depths (Will Joines, 2011) — Music Video

  • Premiered on Pitchfork

• Heaven in Stereo (Will Joines, 2011, Spin) — Music Video

  • Premiered on Spin

• Sparkle in the Dark (Will Joines, 2011, AllMusic) - Music Video

  • Premiered on AllMusic

• Getaway Driver (Will Joines, 2010, MTVU Top 5) - Music Video

  • MTV-U Top 5 Music Videos

• Be Still (Karrie Crouse, 2010) - Narrative Short

  • Screened at Slamdance, Austin Film Festival, and Memphis Film Festival

• Farewell, My Subaru ( Jason Ensler, 2008) - Doc Short

  • Published on BoingBoing

• Obsessed with You (Will Joines, 2008, MTVU) - Music Video

  • Premiered on MTV-U

• Hollywood Smile (Locke Webster, 2007, LOGO Top 10) - Music Video

  • LOGO Top 10 Music Videos

• What I Love About Dying (Silas Howard, 2006) - Doc Short

  • Premiered at Sundance Film Festival (2006)

• Rondro (John Roberts, 2004) - Feature Documentary

  • Premiered at Cine Noir Film Festival, Closing Night Film

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Neoliberalism and Disclosure’s New Trans Activism: The Politics of Discrimination in Hollywood and How to Fight It | Journal of Film & Video, vol. 75, no. 4, Winter 2023

  • Award: University Film & Video Association Paper Prize, 2022

CONFERENCES, PANELS, TALKS

• Panelist | The Edit is the Film: Documentary Editing Roundtables, Backyard Docs, Sept, 2026

• Editor | EDIT VS, Southern Documentary Convening, June 2026

  • I edited live in front of an audience, going head-to-head with another editor.

• Panelist | Made in NC, OutSouth Film Festival, August 2025

  • Post-Producing the short film Rainbow Girls in North Carolina

• Panelist | Equity and Education on Set: Trans Activism in Indie Filmmaking, Night School Bar & The Carrboro Film Festival — Nov 2024

  • Victoria Bouloubasis moderated a panel on my film all the words but the one (Nava Mau, 2024) and Comfrey Films short, Under False Colors (Mikaela Bradford, 2024).

• Panel Moderator | The Power of Local Latiné Stories, Night School Bar & The Carrboro Film Festival — Nov 2024

  • I moderated a panel with Victoria Bouloubasis and two of her documentary protagonists for her films, Un Buen Carnicero (2014) and Heroes of the Pandemic (2020).

• Presenter | 2024 University Film and Video Association Conference, Cleveland State University, July–Aug 2024

  • Lessons in Equity and Education on Set: Producing a Transgender Production Fellowship on the Short Film “all the words but the one” (Nava Mau, 2024)

• Presenter | Queer Studies Conference, UNC-Asheville, March 2023

  • Neoliberalism & Disclosure’s New Trans Activism: The Politics of Discrimination and How to Fight It

• Presenter | 76th UFVA Conference, Suny Fredonia, July 2022

  • That’s Hollywood! How Disclosure’s Activist-filmmakers Refused to Shrug-off Traditional Production Practices by Modeling New Ones

• Panelist | Pritzker Sucker Studio Lab, Northwestern University, April 2022

  • Media Production Cultures and Mental Health

• Presenter | MCLLM, Northern Illinois University, April 2022

  • That’s Hollywood! How Disclosure’s Activist-filmmakers Refused to Shrug-off Traditional Production Practices by Modeling New Ones

• Panelist | Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 2020

  • Devas Ex Machina: A Conversation about God(s), South Asians, and Queers

• Presenter | The Ethnography Lab, Duke University, Feb 2020

  Conversations on Documentary: How Form Influences Function

• Presenter | Scholars of Color Conference, Temple University, April 2019

  What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get: The Limitations and Potential of Word-Processing

• Presenter | Race/Sex/Power Conference, Roosevelt University, April 2018

  Artificial Intelligence Narratives as a Tool for Building an Intersectional Imaginary