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Born Into Coal

Coal queen pageant contestant Arianna Bailey competes for a crown to represent her family’s way of life. Former miner Goose Stewart lives with the memories of a mine explosion. One thing binds both families: coal. I co-produced “Born into Coal” with Cath Spangler as part of Coal: A Love Story, an interactive film that uses […]

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Dreams Delayed

Dreams Delayed is a multimedia documentary web project I produced for my masters thesis. I wanted to tell the overarching story of access to higher education for undocumented students using three different stories: The story of a brother and sister, both were raised in the United States, one of them is undocumented. The story of a […]

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Surviving Siblings

My brother Ben died of cancer when he was 27, and I was 23. Several years later, I came to this project with an interest in telling a story of the grief felt by young people who have suffered the loss of another young person. Initially, I was hesitant to take a first-person narrative approach […]