Experience
My career has been built around a single skill: understanding people, and translating real-life events into clear, compelling narratives that audiences can follow, trust, and remember.
I've worked as a journalist, documentary producer, writer, director, and showrunner—producing hundreds of hours of factual programming for CNN, HBO Max, Discovery, History, and National Geographic.
I started in public radio with Marketplace, moving from researcher to Los Angeles Correspondent, covering breaking news, immigration, business, and the entertainment industry. During that time, I was a member of reporting and producing teams that earned both the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton and the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism.
From there, I joined CNN, producing news magazine stories and documentaries for CNN NewsStand while field producing political coverage for the network's Washington Bureau. As the primary producer for NewsStand's senior anchor, I traveled throughout the United States and around the world producing stories. The program received a National Headliner Award for excellence in news magazine journalism.
For the past two decades, I've produced documentary programming for Discovery, History, National Geographic, and other networks, while serving as both producer and showrunner on multiple documentary series. Four episodes of Deadliest Catch that I helped write, produce, and supervise were nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards.
Why Documentary Experience Matters
Interviewing
The most important moments are rarely planned—they emerge.
Years of interviewing people from every background have taught me how to recognize when someone is moving beyond rehearsed answers into something real. Knowing when to ask another question, and when to stay silent, is not instinct—it's experience.
Those moments can't be scripted. But they can be reliably found by someone who knows how to listen.
Story Structure
Cases rarely arrive as stories.
They arrive as deposition transcripts, medical records, timelines, expert reports, photographs, surveillance footage, and thousands of individual facts.
The documentary producer's role is to discover the story already contained within that material and organize it into a narrative that is accurate, coherent, and compelling—without ever losing sight of the attorney's litigation strategy.
Collaboration
Every project begins with trial counsel.
My role is to translate his strategy into a visual narrative that faithfully reflects the evidence while helping decision-makers understand the client's experience.
Every creative decision serves the legal strategy—not the other way around.
We will also work within our budget, ensuring that we get the most out of the subject for the amount of money available to produce it.