Hardpin • Supervising Producer • June 2022-Present

• Head of the Political division at this multimedia production company with digital roots and global reach

• Work includes directing and producing both TV and digital ads for national and down-ballot candidates — including President Biden and Kamala Harris

• Also: Produced short films for Vital Voices Global Partnership that debuted at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a national broadcast ad for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), international productions with former President Clinton, & more

• Won a 2024 Reed Award for Best Online Video – Longform for the video ACLU Shows Up for Reproductive Freedom

Freelance • Director • Producer • Photographer • Digital Strategist • 2013-Present

• Direct and produce films, TV, videos, photos, graphics, and digital/social media for a wide variety of clients

• Work included consulting on productions — directing and producing for the Inequality Media team, a digital media company founded by former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich

• Produced and edited “Salon Talks,” a digital interview show with elected officials, actors and directors, journalists, authors, musicians, chefs, and more

• Produced a short documentary with Grassroots Law Project on a no-knock raid case in Texas — selected for several film festivals

• Hired to help produce a shoot with former First Lady Michelle Obama for her Netflix show Waffles + Mochi

• Content producer for an event series for software company Asana

• Photographed a story for Getty Images about a family that rescued a pig from slaughter

Farm Sanctuary • Content Director • Oct. 2021-June 2022

• Lead editorial voice at the organization fighting for a just and sustainable food system and an end to animal agriculture

• Managed a creative team of six including writers, photo and video producers, social media manager, and designer, producing mission-aligned content in order to build audience and deepen engagement

U.S. Small Business Administration • Video Director • June 2021-Oct. 2021

• Tasked with overseeing video production at the Cabinet-level agency in the Biden-Harris administration and amplifying the voice of the 27th Administrator Isabel Guzman as well as small business owners across social media channels

• Shot, edited, and produced content (video and photos), and traveled with the Administrator

Biden for President • Supervising Producer • July 2020-Nov. 2020

• Led Joe Biden's digital video strategy for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and Presidential Debates and defined processes for the team, including directly managing five producers and editors

• Focused on optimizing content for his social media channels, with an emphasis on Instagram

• Head producer on set for a video with Michelle Obama — produced videos and coordinated publishing plans with others including Barack Obama

Sanders for President and Friends of Bernie Sanders • Supervising Producer • Oct. 2019-June 2020

• Managed seven producers and editors that created videos generating hundreds of millions of views across candidate’s social media platforms

• Led team brainstorms and gave assignments, edits, and approvals on videos

• Produced videos on the ground in Iowa, New Hampshire, New York, and the candidate’s home in Vermont and with endorsers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Sunrise Movement, March for Our Lives founders, Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon, Emily Ratajkowski, and more

• After his presidential run ended, continued to manage and produce content for Friends of Bernie Sanders PAC

MoveOn • Senior Producer and Editor • June 2016-Sept. 2019

• Helped build a new in-house video team at MoveOn that produced content for both candidate and issue-based campaigns including the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 midterms

• Managed live streaming and graphic design contracts as well as MoveOn’s Instagram presence

• Nominated for The Webby Awards in 2019 for a video about a community ripped apart by deportation and part of a team that won a Shorty Awards in 2019 too

NowThis • Producer • 2012-2013

• One of the first video producers who joined the digital news startup team founded by Lerer Ventures, helping the company get off the ground and build its initial social media presence

HuffPost • Producer • 2011-2012

• First producer in the D.C. office creating content for HuffPost Politics

• Traveled for assignments, shot and edited videos during the 2012 GOP presidential primary election as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement

Allbritton Communications • TBD • NewsChannel 8 • WJLA-TV • Producer • 2010-2011

• Filmed and edited videos on a variety of news and lifestyle topics

• Booked live and taped interview segments for TV and assisted show producers with daily TV newscasts and social media publishing, mainly focusing on Capital Insider, a nightly show on the federal government and its workforce

The World Company • 6News • Lawrence Journal-World • ljworld.com • Reporter • 2010

• Produced and edited videos for TV and the website as well as wrote stories for the newspaper

Internships with NBC, ABC, and CBS News • 2007-2009

EDUCATION

MA • New Media Photojournalism • The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, D.C.

BS • Journalism • Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, IL