Experience

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  M+Co: Premium Archival Research

  • Producer-Writer-Researcher

    • Jan 1986 - Present

    For 30+ years M+Co has discovered and investigated unknown stories and images buried deep within the historical record. M+Co is an archival research and production company, with extensive experience managing and clearing the rights to photographs, film footage, and news reports. On the writing side, M+Co has years of experience in the film, book, and art industries creating position papers, performing editorial services, fact-checking, and writing press releases, essays and monographs on contract. The company is highly flexible, working with media artists and creative executives—from authors and filmmakers to archivists, exhibition designers, gallerists, and musicians.

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  New Mexico History Museum

  • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

  • Photography Archivist

    • Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
    • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

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  2-Hr American politics/history documentary

  • M+Co Client: Archive Producer for So Much Film, LLC

    • Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

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  "The Art of Making It" - Contemporary art feature documentary

  • M+Co Client: Archive Producer - Wischful Thinking Productions

    • Jan 2021 - May 2021

    https://theartofmakingitfilm.com

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  TRIAL 4: Boston true crime docuseries.

  • M+Co Client: Archive Research for Netflix/What's Up Films

    • 2018 - 2020

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  Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page

  • M+Co Client: Contributing Producer for PBS American Masters/Mary Murphy & Company

    • 2017 - 2020

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  CONNECTICUT YANKEE: Autobiography of Wilbur L. Cross

  • M+Co Client: Image Research for City Point Press

    • Mar 2019 - Jun 2019

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  THE FALL OF A GREAT AMERICAN CITY by Kevin Baker

  • M+Co Client: Image Research/Photo Editor for Harpers Mag Fountation/City Point Press

    • Mar 2019 - Jun 2019

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  GUIDING THE NEW NATION: The History of America's First Law School

  • M+Co Client: Image Research for Easton Studio Press

    • Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

    The Litchfield Law School (1784) trained: 2 vice presidents 101 United States congressmen28 United States senators from eleven states6 presidential cabinet members3 justices of the United States Supreme Court14 governors of six states18 chief justices of the highest state courts

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  GATHER: Feature Documentary on Native American Food Sovereignty

  • M+Co Client: Archive Research for Ager Meillier Films/Illumine

    • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

    LOGLINE: The US government tried to eradicate Native Americans in large part by destroying their food system. Little did the government know, however, that the future of American agriculture would depend on the indigenous wisdom and practices they were trying to crush. A handful of Native American food producers resisted and now hold the key to the survival of the American food system.

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  JUICE: How Electricity Explains the World (Book & Feature Doc)

  • Boston, MA

  • M+Co Client: Archive Researcher

    • Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
    • Boston, MA

    Archival research and media management for energy expert and prolific author Robert Bryce's new book and feature documentary on electricity -- and how it explains the history and future of the entire world.

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  MISSISSIPPI SOLO: River to the Heart Productions

  • M+Co Client: Archive Consultant

    • Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

    Archival and story consultant on Eddy L. Harris's documentary based on his book "Mississippi Solo", the legendary socio-cultural travelogue of his solo journey by canoe of the entire length of the Mississippi River. In RIVER TO THE HEART, Harris makes the same journey to see what has changed in 30 years.

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  PBS-FRONTLINE-Kirk Documentary Group

  • Boston

  • M+Co Client: Archive Researcher

    • Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
    • Boston

    Veteran producer Michael Kirk's team produces stellar tv news documentaries for PBS' FRONTLINE series. This film "Bannon's War" traces the intellectual and ideological pre-history of President Trump's key advisors. Air date 23 May 2017.

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  Mercy Street: Little, Brown / Creative Management Partners, LLC

  • M+Co Client: Photograph Research

    • 2015 - Feb 2017

    For "Mercy Street: The Nurses of the Civil War"​ (Little, Brown: 2015) work with author and publisher to research, select and clear rights to use Civil War images in 20-page insert to scholarly book, to accompany new PBS series, "Mercy Street."

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  Archives at FOLK New England

  • Cambridge, MA

  • M+Co Client: Director, Collections

    • Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
    • Cambridge, MA

    Co-create web-based relational database, lead inventory, description, catalog, finding aid project for non-profit cultural institution charged with preservation and publication of the history of the folk revival in New England. Collection currently focuses on folk coffeehouses and clubs in the Boston area, particularly the iconic Club 47, built on the holdings of Betsy Siggins, former manager of Club 47 and Club Passim. Photographic prints, negatives, posters, ephemera, audio/reel-to-reel tapes, complete papers of Jim Rooney, Betsy Siggins, Greenhill Family/Folklore Productions, oral histories, vintage LP collection, more. In collaboration with the Cambridge Historical Society.

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  FOLK New England

  • Creative Director

    • Nov 2010 - Sep 2015

    Directed branding and communications campaign for regional non-profit history organization. With graphic designer, created new logo and identity collateral. Wrote and edited appeal letters, grant proposals, press releases, and placed stories with area journalists and publishers. Administered website: wrote or edited online articles, news bulletins, biographies, all image content. Curated public photograph exhibitions. Directed archive of materials related to the folk revival and its social and political context in the 50s and 60s. Supervised inventory volunteers.Mission: FOLK New England documents, preserves, interprets and presents the ongoing cultural legacy of folk music in all its forms, with emphasis on New England’s contribution to the enrichment of North American life.

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  Mary Murphy & Company/PBS American Masters

  • M+Co Client: Archive Researcher for "Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman"

    • Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

    "To everyone's surprise, fifty-five years after the publication of "To Kill a Mockingbird"​ Harper Lee is publishing another novel. "Go Set a Watchman"​ was written before Lee's beloved masterpiece, as director Mary McDonagh Murphy explains in this update of her 2011 documentary "Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird."

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  Partners & Spade/Shinola (Where American is Made)

  • M+Co Client: Researcher for the Interstate Highway Film

    • 2015 - 2015

    An American town in the Eisenhower years: "We may have been passed by by the Interstate system, and we may be down now, but with our ingenuity, our vitality, our hard work, our determination to progress and make good, we have now built a new town, an even better town, and our lives and businesses and manufacturers and we, ourselves, have been revitalized. Perhaps in the end, our apparent misfortune was the engine that brought us here. We are where American is made."

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  Boris McCutcheon (Cactusman Productions)

  • M+Co Client: Music Manager/Producer

    • Jan 2008 - Sep 2014

    Led all US public-facing executive management for this established singer-songwriter and his band The Salt Licks. Artist management, brand development tour booking, promotions and publicity, placing articles, writing/editing, two successful crowdsourcing campaigns on IndieGoGo, applications for competitive festival performances (SXSW, Moab, Folk Alliance, NewSong, etc); multiple online artist site maintenance and updating; coordinating with European booking agent Lucky Dice.

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  KCET Los Angeles

  • M+Co Client: Author "The 60s in the 90s"

    • 2014 - 2014

    Article for KCET Los Angeles transmedia site, "Artbound". Commentary on the 90s art scene in Los Angeles, reflecting on my past experience as Arts & Culture writer-producer for the PBS flagship station in LA. Published to coincide with re-broadcast of hour-long arts television program "The Works: The 60s in the 90s". I created and produced the series "The Works".

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  42 Degrees North Media / Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

  • M+Co Client: Archive Researcher for "The Human Genome Project"

    • 2013 - 2013

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  McMillen Media + Communications

  • M+Co Client: Archive Producer for The Peter Drucker Documentary

    • 2013 - 2013

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  Wishing Well Productions/First Run Features

  • M+Co Client: Archive Producer on The Pleasures of Being Out of Step (Nat Hentoff)

    • Aug 2011 - 2013

    "The Pleasures of Being Out of Step" profiles jazz critic and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff, whose pioneering career tracks the greatest cultural and political movements of the last 65 years. The film is about an idea as well as a man --- the idea of free expression as the defining characteristic of the individual.

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  PublicAffairs Books

  • M+Co Client: Photo Research for "Little Red: Three Passionate Lives Through the Sixties and Beyond"

    • 2012 - 2012

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  Gerald Peters Gallery

  • Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, and Publications Editor

    • 2005 - 2008

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  20th Century Fox International Corporation

  • Director Photo Archive

    • Jan 1996 - Jan 2001

    Established still photograph archive and new department for major motion picture studio. Designed vault, library, conservation area, and staff work space, and supervised build-out of new department (approximately 4200 sq. feet, not including vault). Was chief creative and curatorial director of 10 million-item collection, as well as lead archivist and preservationist, while managing daily operation of high-volume client service department for studio. Responsible for annual department budget, and for creating self-sustaining financial profile for area by implementing interdivisional fee structure and charge-outs for photo services. Hired and supervised staff of 4, plus special-assignment contractors and interns.

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  Rhino Entertainment

  • Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Editorial Researcher

    • Jan 1995 - May 1996
    • Los Angeles, California, United States

    Rhino Records Editorial Research and Copy Editor for CD album reissues & archival music compilations: Dick Dale, Esther Phillips, Yardbird-Charlie Parker, Soul Box, Nina Simone.

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  Warner Bros. Entertainment

  • Research Director: EXTRA

    • Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

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  Norman Lear Productions

  • Research Director: The Maya Angelou Show

    • Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

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  Walt Disney Imagineering

  • Exhibit Designer/Producer

    • Jan 1993 - Jan 1994

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  KCET (now PBS SoCal | KCET)

  • Director/Producer/Writer KCET Arts & Culture Programming

    • Jan 1989 - Jan 1994

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  Autry Museum of the American West

  • Exhibit Designer/Producer

    • Jan 1986 - Jan 1987

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  M+Co: Premium Research and Content Production

  • Photo Research and Clearances for Publishing Industry

    • 1900 - 1901

    Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin BalintBorn in Africa:The Quest for the Origins of Human Life by Martin MeredithMighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Lehman Gbowee with Carol Mithers A Mayor's Life by David Dinkins with Peter KnoblerThe Vietnam Experience by Time/Life20th Century Fox: Inside the Photo Archive by Rob EasterlaRonald Reagan: A Presidential Portfolio by Lou CannonMandela: A Biography by Martin MeredithThe Other Barack by Sally JacobsThe Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen