About me

Recording bird sounds on St. Lazaria Island in Southeast Alaska for a radio story.

I am a documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist. I do a little bit of everything. I shoot. I edit. I produce. I report.

Most recently, I directed and shot the short documentary film, Old People Driving, which chronicles the adventures of two men in their late 90s as they approach the end of their driving years. The film was awarded the Margaret and William Hearst Award for Excellence in Documentary Film and an honorable mention at the 2010 Los Angeles International Film Festival. For more information on the film visit www.oldpeopledrivingmovie.com.

Before making moving pictures, I made still ones. My photographs have appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and in magazines including Marie Claire, Utne Reader, and Ms. Magazine. In 2003 I was a founding staff member of the national oral history project, Story Corps. I have also worked as a non-profit program director, photography teacher, picture framer, bookseller, bartender and artist’s model.

A graduate of Smith College and the documentary film program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, I am now based in Oakland, Calif., (but can occasionally be found in Brooklyn, N.Y., or Sitka, Ala.).