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IMPACT STRATEGIST.
PRODUCER. CURATOR. MARKETER.

With over 15 years of experience in broadcast television, event production, impact and marketing, I am passionate about connecting storytelling, art, and technology to audiences through meaningful and transformative experiences.

As the Director of Impact Strategy and External Relations for FRONTLINE PBS, I lead the strategic planning, producing, and tracking of live programs and digital journalism. These projects address some of the most vital issues of our time, and serve as a catalyst for societal impact. I've led impact campaigns including "Un(re)solved," an Emmy Award®-winning multi-platform and augmented reality project examining America’s history of racial violence during the civil rights era, and have collaborated with institutions such as the U.S. State Department to feature the 2024 Oscar-winning film "20 Days in Mariupol" about the conflict in Ukraine. I've partnered with numerous community, civic, educational, and cultural entities such as the Civil Rights Restorative Justice Project, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Tribeca Film Festival, MIT's Center for Construction Communication, the Two Mississippi Museums and more.

As the Senior Director of Station Marketing and Audience Engagement for the PBS series POV/American Documentary I led the national engagement initiative, "Our America: Documentary in Dialogue." and served as the Marketing Manager at Women Make Movies, the largest distribution of films directed by and about women. As the Associate Director at the Gold Coast International Film Festival - multi-day fest, and year-round film series, I led multicultural programs and produced engaging events. While an artist agent, I represented and promoted photographers and artists at Shannon Associates, a premier management agency that "serves the needs of clients in publishing, advertising, entertainment, design, architecture, and tech."

PODCASTS

Produced podcast episodes of The FRONTLINE Dispatch

"A Conversation with Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa"

Discussion featuring Journalist Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and subject of the documentary 'A Thousand Cuts." LISTEN HERE.

"The Federal Reserve's Big Experiment "

Jerome Powell, the U.S. Federal Reserve and its chair addresses concerns over inflation and the impact of the Fed’s pandemic-era policies. Financial journalist Dion Rabouin calls the country's central bank, “the most powerful and least understood institution in the country.” LISTEN HERE.

"How Boeing's Flawed 737 Made It Into the Air"

FRONTLINE'S director, Tom Jennings of "Boeing’s Fatal Flaw," and New York Times reporter David Gelles detail their findings. LISTEN HERE.

Interview

"The Round Table" A Next Generation Politics Podcast: "A Voices for the Voiceless" - youth civic engagement panel. LISTEN HERE.

Podcast Moderator

Mississippi Book Festival "Write On Mississippi" (Jackson, MS)

Moderated discussion: featuring "A Race Against Time" Pulitzer Prize finalist author, Jerry Mitchell, and Linda McNair, sister of Denise McNair, victim of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing). LISTEN HERE.

SPEAKER/MODERATOR

Cannes Film Festival (Cannes, France) American Pavillion panelist for Oscar-nominated “For Sama”
Innovation Studio/District Hall (Boston, MA) "Leveraging Art, Technology & Journalism to Create Awareness and Equity"
Public Media Marketing and Development Conference (Chicago, IL) “Multicultural Audience Development: What’s Your Next Step for Inclusive Audience Growth?”
PBS Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA) Mainstage speaker on audience engagement, “Our America: Documentary in Dialogue”
SXSW Film Festival (Austin, TX) “What is Impact Distribution and How Do You Do It?” and "Where Documentary Storytelling Meets Real-World Impact"
New York University (New York, NY) graduate school workshop for innovative technology projects
City College of New York Documentary Forum (New York, NY) “Impact Producing - What to Know”
Public Media Women in Leadership (virtual) "Investigative Journalism TV"
Women Make Movies (virtual)“Producing for Impact, Outreach and Engagement”
Athena Film Festival (New York, NY) “Film Outreach and Engagement”
Sound Scene Audio Arts Festival (Washington, DC) "Un(re)solved" presentation
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, NY) Youth Summit "Community and Catalysts"
Cap Times Ideas Festival (Madison, WI) "Un(Re)Solved Wisconsin: A Dialogue on Racial Violence"
National Council for the Social Studies (virtual) - Emmett Till cousin, Deborah Watts interviewed
Carey Institute for Global Good (virtual) workshop series instructing filmmakers, journalists, authors and podcasters.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

UN(RE)SOLVED

Un(re)solved is an innovative art installation and multi-platform experience that combines art, technology, and investigative journalism. The project explores the history of racist civil rights-era killings, and was inspired by late Congressman John Lewis' "Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act," and the journalistic legacy of Ida B. Wells.

Two Mississippi Museums Exhibited Un(re)solved on Emmett Till Anniversary

On August 28, the exhibit opened to align with the commemoration of the death of Emmett Till. “.... an innocent fourteen-year-old boy was murdered, and justice never prevailed,” said Pamela D.C. Junior, director of the Two Mississippi Museums. “I think it is especially fitting that FRONTLINE’s new traveling exhibit begins its journey at the Two Mississippi Museums where we remember the people who sacrificed so much for freedom and equality.”

Photo Exhibition: "The Bearing Witness: Documenting War Crimes in Mariupol, Ukraine"

The photography exhibition was presented in association with the Associated Press team of Ukrainian journalists who were trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol. They continued to work, documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remained in the city, they captured what later became defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.