Experience

Martian Brothel

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Writer

  • Mar 2023 - Present



Deeper Magic, LLC

• President

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  - Founder of Production Company for artistically fearless content with intersectional activist messages - Wrote, budgeted, secured funding, produced, directed, and edited a feature film with a six-figure budget - Led a production with a cast and crew of over 100. “The Way You Look Tonight” (2019) - Writer/ Director/Co-Producer/Co-Editor - Recipient of Post Production Grant from The Caucus Foundation of Writers, Directors, and Producers - Recipient of the Lew and Edie Wasserman Fellowship Grant Show less



DJ2 Entertainment Inc.

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Writer

  • May 2022 - Mar 2023



Media Res Studio

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Script Coordinator

  • Oct 2019 - May 2022

• Interim Production Coordinator

  • Sep 2019 - Oct 2019

• Reader

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

• Writers Assistant

  • May 2019 - Jul 2019

• Researcher

  • Mar 2019 - May 2019

• Development Intern

  • Mar 2018 - Mar 2019



Freelance

• Commercial Writer

  • Aug 2015 - May 2020

  • Provide copy or edit existing copy to express the client’s vision for the product• Visualize and translate client’s vision for the commercial into script form.

• Film Editor

  • Jan 2012 - May 2020

  •Selected Filmography: 2019 - The Way You Look Tonight, Feature (also writer/director) 2018 - Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul, Short 2018 - Development, Short (also writer/director) 2018 - C.R.E.A.M. & Butter, Short 2017 - Keeton Olson For HOA President: A Mild Inconvenience, Short 2015 - The Opposite of Echoes, Short (also writer/director) 2013 - A Woman with a Physical Problem, Documentary Short (also director) 2013 - Continuity, Short (also writer/director) 2012 - Bradley, Documentary Short (also director) Show less



UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2018

  - Gave supplemental lectures, made presentations on craft and lead discussion groups in analysis of lecture material. - Graduate and undergraduate classes ranging from 15 to 220 students. - Provided written and oral feedback to students on papers and written assignments. - In workshop classes, coordinated exhibition schedules with the professor, rescheduled presentations with students relative to the complexity and needs of the project. - Scheduled workshops and outside class discussions while tutoring students on course material while maintaining email correspondences to guide the students through the course and the class materials. Show less



American Zoetrope

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Editor

  • Jun 2016 - Sep 2016

  - Assistant Editor on "Distant Vision," the broadcast of a Live Cinema Workshop directed by Francis Ford Coppola in the summer of 2016 at UCLA. - Ingested and organized footage while assisting with capture and storage of rehearsed and pre-captured footage through an EVS system. - Edited specialized sequences and titles for the final broadcast. - Coordinated elements with the production team to stream live during the final broadcast. - Coppola published his findings from the project in the book "Live Cinema and Its Techniques" where I am credited. Show less



WaterO, Inc

• Health, Wellness & Fitness
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commercial Writer/Director

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

  - Wrote, directed, and performed voice over work for two commercials and provided digital website copy. - Provided voice-over direction and copy for additional commercials and website. - One of these commercials one two Addy Awards. The others were nominated for additional awards. - Wrote, directed, and performed voice over work for two commercials and provided digital website copy. - Provided voice-over direction and copy for additional commercials and website. - One of these commercials one two Addy Awards. The others were nominated for additional awards.



Archer

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Broadcast Intern

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  -Filmed and edited promotional videos and commercials for clients, as well as internal company videos. - Worked on a team researching, brainstorming, and executing a marketing campaign for an internet startup. -Filmed and edited promotional videos and commercials for clients, as well as internal company videos. - Worked on a team researching, brainstorming, and executing a marketing campaign for an internet startup.



Rhodes College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Writing Fellow

  • Aug 2012 - May 2014

  -Regularly attended the First Year Writing Seminar to which I was assigned-Supplemented class discussion.-Counseled privately with the professor about student progress. -Held office hours and provided written and oral feedback to students on paper drafts. -Tutored students in the writing center- offering special counseling and advising in the production of papers, grant applications, and resumes.-Created reports and engaged with other professors on the improvements made to student writing. Show less

• Summer Documentary Fellow - Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  - Participated in several weeks of immersive observation in the culture, history, and sociopolitical background of Memphis, TN.- Conducted interviews, shot, directed, produced, and edited a 45 minute documentary in corporation with The Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center under the direction of the Institute’s Visual Caucus. - Film is titled "A Woman with a Physical Problem" and follows four transgender women at various stages of their transition as they deal with the day-to-day struggles of living in and around the Mid-South. - Honored with special screening at Outfest film festival. The film is still used as educational tool at Rhodes College and in the Memphis LGBT community. Show less

• Data Services Student Worker

  • Sep 2010 - Aug 2012

  -Organized, filed, shredded, scanned and indexed documents.-Performed data entry on student files, updating and organizing application information for incoming students.



Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies

• Memphis, TN

• Documentary Fellow

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  • Shot, directed, produced, and edited a documentary about transgender women in Memphis • Received a special screening at Outflix Film Festival 2013 • Film is still used as an educational tool at Rhodes College and in the Memphis LGBTQ community • Shot, directed, produced, and edited a documentary about transgender women in Memphis • Received a special screening at Outflix Film Festival 2013 • Film is still used as an educational tool at Rhodes College and in the Memphis LGBTQ community



FuelFilm:Memphis

• Greater Memphis Area

• Communications Intern

  • May 2012 - Oct 2012

  -Edited promotional video excerpts for a local documentary on urban sustainability sponsored by the City of Memphis -Conducted research on potential sponsors, drafting letters around the acquired information to request support or sponsorship of upcoming events. -Performed standard office tasks: emailing sponsors, updating google drive documents, organizing research findings -Edited promotional video excerpts for a local documentary on urban sustainability sponsored by the City of Memphis -Conducted research on potential sponsors, drafting letters around the acquired information to request support or sponsorship of upcoming events. -Performed standard office tasks: emailing sponsors, updating google drive documents, organizing research findings