Experience

Farmers Conservation Alliance (FCA)

• United States
• Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications Contractor

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Supporting communications through on-location video production, in-house editing, written materials, and organizational messaging for a non-profit working to implement a patented fish screen design and to modernize irrigation districts throughout the western US. Supporting communications through on-location video production, in-house editing, written materials, and organizational messaging for a non-profit working to implement a patented fish screen design and to modernize irrigation districts throughout the western US.



USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Communications

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  Multi-year contract to document the human stories behind the multi-billion-dollar damage wild hogs wreak on American agriculture, wildlife habitat, cultural resources and private property. Through short documentary videos, earned print media features and still photos, we're creating content to help the USDA-APHIS staff broaden awareness around the wild hog issue. Multi-year contract to document the human stories behind the multi-billion-dollar damage wild hogs wreak on American agriculture, wildlife habitat, cultural resources and private property. Through short documentary videos, earned print media features and still photos, we're creating content to help the USDA-APHIS staff broaden awareness around the wild hog issue.



www.modocstories.com

• Co-Boss

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  Small video production company focusing on documentary-style short films and messaging videos for brands, non-profits and editorial publications. Soup-to-nuts video capacity from story development, location scouting, on-location filming, and post-production. Gear includes Sony FS7 + A7SII cameras, lighting and sound kits, Mavic Pro 2 drone + FAA license and full Canon photography kits. Clients include REI, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WhyHunger, The New Yorker, Corning | Gorilla Glass, Starbucks, Tofurky, Travel Oregon, NatureBridge and USDA. Show less



WhyHunger

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

  Reported stories on food justice initiatives around the US as a joint project of WhyHunger and the USDA's Community Food Project Grant program. Traveled to over 50 grassroots organizations from Maine to Florida to Oklahoma and the west coast to tell the stories of food system change. Reported stories on food justice initiatives around the US as a joint project of WhyHunger and the USDA's Community Food Project Grant program. Traveled to over 50 grassroots organizations from Maine to Florida to Oklahoma and the west coast to tell the stories of food system change.



Who Owns Water film

• Director

  • 2013 - 2014

  An award-winning 50 minute documentary film following a month-long canoe expedition from north Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico to report on a decades-old water war between Georgia-Florida-Alabama. Official Selection at MountainFilm Telluride and D.C. Environmental Film Festival, Best Doc winner at Lookout Wild Film Fest and Mississippi Film and Music Fest. Aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting and Maryland Public TV An award-winning 50 minute documentary film following a month-long canoe expedition from north Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico to report on a decades-old water war between Georgia-Florida-Alabama. Official Selection at MountainFilm Telluride and D.C. Environmental Film Festival, Best Doc winner at Lookout Wild Film Fest and Mississippi Film and Music Fest. Aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting and Maryland Public TV



Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival

• Book Author

  • 2010 - 2011

  Book of essays profiling twelve urban farm projects around the US, published in 2011 by the University of California Press Book of essays profiling twelve urban farm projects around the US, published in 2011 by the University of California Press


Southern Progress Corporation
• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Features Editor, Cottage Living Magazine

  • 2004 - 2008

Nature Bridge
• India
• Manufacturing
• Field Science Instructor

  • 2002 - 2004