About

I’m a documentary filmmaker, researcher, and narrative strategist whose work has grown out of long-term collaborations with social movements. I work at the intersection of storytelling, power, and public life — supporting movements, foundations, and public institutions to think carefully about how stories are made, shared, and held accountable.

My practice explores how creative nonfiction, participatory documentary, and immersive forms of storytelling can support movements for systemic change — not as communications, but as a way of building shared understanding, accountability, and power. I’m interested in what stories do in the world: how they circulate, who they serve, and how they shape what feels politically imaginable.

My films have screened internationally and on platforms including PBS and Netflix. Alongside my filmmaking, I’ve led impact campaigns and narrative projects in partnership with organizations such as PEN America, the Ford Foundation, Terre des Hommes, and the Socio-Economic Rights Institute. Over time, my work has increasingly focused on supporting movements, foundations, and public institutions to articulate complex work with nuance, political care, and accountability to the communities most affected — across film, public education projects, and long-term narrative strategy.

I approach storytelling as a form of infrastructure. For me, visual media is a way to build power from below, to stretch our collective imagination about what is politically possible, and to create spaces where people can think together rather than retreat into polarization. Documentary, in particular, remains a vital way of gathering people in shared physical and intellectual space — to learn, argue, and listen across difference.

I’m the founder of the Institute for Movement Narratives, an interdisciplinary research and practice initiative that brings together community co-creation, critical research, and visual storytelling. My current work includes Breathscapes, a participatory project commissioned by Habitable Air, which combines community air monitoring, creative practice, and storytelling to explore racialized air quality injustice in South Africa and beyond.

Alongside my nonfiction work, I’m also a fiction writer, currently developing long-form projects that return to many of the same questions I explore in my films: power, memory, collective struggle, and the stories we tell to build a kinder society and to heal the planet.

Selected Credentials

My work has been supported by organizations including the Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, the Skoll Foundation, PEN America, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Films and projects have screened internationally and on platforms including PBS, Netflix, and The New York Times Op-Docs.