Organization: Center for Digital Storytelling

I graduated from Purdue University in December of '06 with a degree in film/video studies, which basically means I watched a lot of wacky movies and wrote a lot of equally wacky papers. Most of my actual production work has centered around documentaries about those close to me, like my autistic brother, my online community of friends, and my more local friends and their various life endeavors. Ultimately, I'd like to change the face of television as we know it, but until then I'm usually indulging in random tech-y pursuits, tinkering with my computers, playing video games, and planning elaborate trips to foreign lands. Currently, I'm working at the Center for Digital Storytelling as an Americorps VISTA via the CTC VISTA project.

I'm a recent graduate of The Evergreen State College where I studied documentary media and gender studies, culminating in the creation of A Problem Like Maria, a documentary film featuring the stories of religious sisters (nuns) and their struggles for gender equality within the Catholic Church. As a 2007 Young People For Fellow, I coordinated a documentary photography and audio exhibit on the lives of families facing welfare cuts in Washington state. I also spent a summer doing human rights documentation work in Guatemala, organized a Take Back the Night rally and currently serves on Amnesty International's Women's Human Rights Steering Committee.

After spending the last year in Seattle working on the community outreach campaign for the documentary film Inlaws & Outlaws, I am thrilled to continue combining my passions for media and social change through my work as a community organizer at The Center for Digital Storytelling.

In my spare time, I can be found freelance writing for various publications, taking photographs of gentrifying neighborhoods, and/or making mix CDs for every imaginable situation.