A little about me.

I am a four-time National Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, journalist and film curator and currently the Senior News Director for Visuals at the Detroit Free Press. In 2018, I was part of the team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series of multimedia stories that examined the difficulties and unintended consequences of fulfilling President Trump's pledge to construct a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. I was the lead producer on 12TH AND CLAIRMOUNT, a full-length documentary that looks back at the Detroit rebellion of 1967, and the feature-length documentary THE WALL, an outgrowth of the Pulitzer Prize-winning multimedia story. My latest film COLDWATER KITCHEN goes inside a Michigan prison where a dedicated chef’s gourmet culinary training program gives incarcerated men new skills — and new hope. I co-founded the Freep Film Festival, a documentary film festival in Detroit, where I serve as the festival's artistic director. I am currently executive producing a serial podcast set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In my role at the Free Press, I manage a staff of nine photographers and editors and in 2019, I was named Editor of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. Before joining the Free Press as an editor, I spent 10 years as a photojournalist.