I’ve witnessed the power of storytelling.
As a content creator (images, words, video) or story producer (researcher, strategist, project manager), I’ve contributed to over 80 long-form, short-form, and multimedia stories for 30+ companies, organizations, and publications on topics ranging from landmines to the Texas cattle industry.
I've seen firsthand how stories can transform individuals and communities.
Through personal encounters with landscapes, people, and experiences.
Photography is a pretext to meet coppersmiths, climb into New Mexican canyons, and linger among strangers on city streets. Every subject – living or inanimate – has a defining set of stories. Those stories have also defined me.
On assignment for organizations, companies, and publications.
Collaborating as an independent storyteller, I've experienced how stories best illustrate and detail an organization's impact on the ground, from Missouri's farmlands to the West Bank.
Empowering others to tell their own stories.
I've seen young and old realize their own voice while teaching and leading creative workshops with Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, National Geographic Expeditions, and National Geographic Photo Camp – empowering over 280 photography students across the country and abroad.
Photo editing and story producing at the National Geographic Magazine.
Working alongside brilliant photographers, researchers, and editors of the world-renowned publication, I've learned that great stories have great details; details surfaced from patiently creating great conditions.
Leading collaborations at creative firms.
Great brands and campaigns are built on story. The best stories are made through collaboration. Being a client liaison and project manager at award-winning branding firms, I've learned to plan and facilitate strategic sessions that unite clients and creatives to solve challenges and unlock meaningful brands, campaigns, and films.
Brands I’ve Worked With
Unfortunately, I've witnessed countless high-quality, hard-worked stories fail to move the needle.
There are a lot of stories about a lot of problems.
There are a lot of cause-organizations offering a lot of solutions.
It can be exhausting.
Like most, I wanted to engage but was uncertain who was achieving what impact and how. Cause communications have plenty of why, but not enough detail.
Impact is in the details.
To understand who is achieving what impact and how, I use journalistic storytelling linked with evaluation to reveal an organization's outcomes and how it can make more impact – helping cause-exhausted people navigate the murky waters between awareness and action.