Summary

A passionate storyteller with documentary and news experience, I'm equally at home in the office or the field. Cool headed under pressure with a profound belief that entertaining and informative don't ever have to be mutually exclusive.

Credits

9/16 – 9/17

Producer ABC World News

ABC — TV — ABC News Details
9/16 – 9/17

• Produce segments for air on World News Weekend Broadcast • Research and flesh out stories by identifying and interviewing key players, eyewitnesses, and experts • Identify, clear and bring in best video content • Work with senior producer, correspondent, and editor to tell stories, editorially and visually, in a clear, concise, and accurate way, in a tight deadline driven environment

4/16 – 7/16

Associate Producer Years of Living Dangerously (Season 2)

National Geographic — TV — Roaring Fork Productions Details
4/16 – 7/16

-Worked as Associate Producer on an 8-part, 15-story Climate Change Documentary Series airing on the National Geographic Channel -Planned logistics and built call sheets ahead of domestic and international shoots, including those involving drones, submersibles, boats, seaplanes, and autonomous cars -Assisted producer on set by supervising crew and gear, coordinating schedule with characters and celebrity correspondents, and providing editorial and visual suggestions -Researched climate change related story topics including sea level rise in Miami, sea surface temperature-hurricane relationships, the future of electric and autonomous vehicles, and the economics and politics of carbon taxation -Developed story arcs by selecting and pre-interviewing characters, conceptualizing scene content, settings, and order, and assisting in writing post production voice over

11/12 – 5/15

Production Associate ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

ABC — TV — ABC News Details
11/12 – 5/15

• Produced tease segments for air ahead of commercial breaks and over the shoulder video for broadcast • Compiled daily highlight reel of best available footage and presented to senior producers and anchor • Created, researched, and edited World News Rewind Facebook, Youtube segments, compiling archival footage from old newscasts into larger picture storylines that provided context to current events • Pitched, produced, and edited World News Web Extras by turning unused content into stories with the potential to go viral in order to draw more viewers to the newscast • Pitched segments for air on broadcast • Produced Segments for weekend newscast

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Education

Class of '11

Amherst College

Political Science B.A.

Skills

  • Avid
  • Production
  • Documentary
  • News