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Hardpin • Supervising Producer • June 2022-Present
Highlights:
• Directed, produced and scripted a flagship video for EMILYs List’s 40th Anniversary celebration in May 2025 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C.
• Directed and produced television and digital ads for national and down-ballot Democratic candidates, from the 2022 Midterm Elections to the 2024 presidential campaign
• Produced short films for Vital Voices, including those for the 2023 Global Leadership Awards that premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• Led production on a national broadcast ad and various social media campaign content for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), winning a 2024 Reed Award for Best Online Video – Longform for the video ACLU Shows Up for Reproductive Freedom
• Directed three international productions with former President Bill Clinton, including one alongside Secretary Hillary Clinton
Freelance • Director • Producer • Photographer • Editor • Writer • 2013-Present
Highlights:
• 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 at Salon with elected officials, actors and directors, journalists, authors, musicians, chefs, and more
• Produced a short documentary film 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 her social media platforms
• Shot, edited, and produced content (video and photos), and traveled with the Administrator
Biden for President • Supervising Producer • July 2020-Nov. 2020
Highlights:
• Managed five producers and editors• Helped lead on digital video strategy for the 2020 Conventions and Presidential Debates
• Head producer on set for a video with First Lady Michelle Obama — produced videos and coordinated publishing plans with others including President 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 his 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 as well
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