About Me

As a video journalist I helped garner NEWSWEEK the first Emmy nomination of any U.S. magazine for “Voices of the Fallen: The Iraq War through the Words of the Dead.” In 2008, I was nominated for a second Emmy for NEWSWEEK’s original business series “The Crunch.” My work has been honored by the Webbys, The National Press Club, the Magazine Publishers of America, the Society of Professional Journalists, GLAAD, MIN and the National Association of Black Journalists.

While at NEWSWEEK, I profiled a survivor pulled from the rubble of the twin towers, recounted a U.S. POW’s tale through the fascinating writings he had left behind on cigarette papers in a Nazi prison, documented former Japanese-American internees as they roadtripped back to the town of their imprisonment, told an epic tale of the restoration of the Gettysburg Cyclorama—a painting so powerful it made men weep when it was originally unveiled—and caught up with the joint descendants of both Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass for their thoughts on the inauguration of America’s first black president.

During the 2008 elections, I covered the campaign trail and conventions, producing video interviews with Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Michael Bloomberg, Laura Bush, Cindy McCain, and Ron Paul. After a promotion, I managed NEWSWEEK’s video team as well as production of their viral sensations “The District,” “Return to Oz: The Munchkins 70 Years Later,” “The Decade in Seven Minutes,” and “Lost on ‘Lost’”. For Glamour Magazine, I edited a heartrending profile of Ugandan child soldiers for their 2007 Women of the Year Awards, and an homage to Elizabeth Glaser for their 2011 awards. And for Maxim magazine, I managed a small team of video producers while tripling their video traffic in just 6 months.

I hold degrees from the College of William and Mary and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.