SELECTED WORK
An Emmy® winning documentary series featuring investigative reports and in-depth stories about our changing environment. This season features two episodes on the past and future of the Los Angeles river, episodes about the tourist boom and raven overpopulation in the Mojave Desert and an episode about the future of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo. Produced by Ahra Films.
Writer, Producer, Director, Editor | PBS SoCal | 2024
An Emmy® winning documentary series shining a light on the environmental knowledge of Indigenous peoples across California by exploring how the state's Native peoples have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. The series examines how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to find a balance between humans and nature. Based on the series Tending the Wild (below).
Co-creator, Executive Producer | KCET | 2017-2021
An Emmy® and Golden Mike® winning digital series and TV special shining light on the environmental knowledge of Indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. This series examines how humans are necessary to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment.
Co-creator, Producer | KCET | 2016
An Emmy® winning documentary series that explores America’s booming food scene through the eyes of a new generation of chefs whose cuisine is inspired by the immigrant experience. Visit the kitchens of those who have transformed the culinary landscape of this country with traditional ethnic cuisines and a fusion of new flavors and techniques. James Beard Award® nominated. In partnership with Life & Thyme.
Co-creator, Producer | KCET | 2016—2021
An Artbound documentary about prominent artist Doug Aitken who for more than 20 years has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His multichannel video installations, sculptures, photographs, publications, happenings and architectural works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition. In his newest piece, “Underwater Pavilions,” he creates a conversation with the viewer to become fully present and immersed in the sea.
Producer | KCET | 2018
An Emmy® winning Artbound documentary that travels back to pre-industrial Los Angeles to explore one of its key and most controversial figures – Charles Lummis. Writer and editor of the LA Times, avid collector and preservationist, Indian rights activist, and founder of LA’s first museum, The Southwest Museum, Lummis’ genius and idiosyncratic personality captured the ethos of an era and a region.
Producer | KCET | 2016
An Emmy® winning documentary series featuring investigative reports and in-depth stories about our changing environment. In partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Co-creator, EP (Seasons 1-4) | KCET | 2017—2021
THE NEW WEST
A Golden Mike® winning feature documentary telling the story of Harry Reid, a politician who grew up in an Old West mining town, saw the possibility of a New West emerging in Nevada, and rode that change to power. Reid settled water wars with respect for Native Americans, protected endangered species and wilderness, and ushered in a just transition to renewable energy. Could this western green new deal set an example for the nation?
Co-creator, Executive Producer, Producer | KCET | 2020
A documentary about Proposition 187, a California ballot measure passed in 1994, that sought to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. While the initiative was meant to keep the “immigrant threat” at bay, it accomplished just the opposite, becoming the match that lit the fire within Latino immigrant groups and their allies across the state. Their political awakening would forever change California politics, helping shape major Latino political careers and turning the state blue.
Co-creator, Executive Producer | KCET | 2020
An Emmy® winning documentary series exploring the past through the region's archives, where photos, documents, and other rare artifacts unlock the untold history behind the fantasy of Southern California. Much of L.A.'s past is lost to history, but through the region's archives, we can uncover the inspiring dreams and bitter realities that built the modern-day metropolis. Hosted by Nathan Masters.
Co-creator, Executive Producer, Producer | KCET | 2015—2022
An Artbound documentary about East Los Angeles during the late 1960s and 1970s, where a group of young activists used photography as a means for community organizing, providing a platform for the Chicano Movement in the form of the bilingual newspaper/magazine La Raza. In the process, the young activists became artists themselves and articulated a visual language that shed light on the daily life, concerns and struggles of the Mexican-American experience in Southern California and provided a voice to the Chicano Rights Movement.
Producer | KCET | 2018
An Emmy® and Golden Mike® winning Artbound documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright's search for an authentic architecture suitable to LA's culture and landscape. The film explores the houses the legendary architect built in Los Angeles while also exploring the provocative theory that these homes were also a means of artistic catharsis for Wright, who was recovering from a violent tragic episode in his life.
Producer | KCET | 2018
An Emmy® winning documentary series hosted by social justice warrior, restaurant entrepreneur Roy Choi. He takes a heartfelt journey to explore broken food systems in our country and meet the people that are making a change.
Co-creator, Producer (Season 1) | KCET + Tastemade | 2019
OTHER PROJECTS
Blue Sky Metropolis | Producer | KCET | 2019
Emmy® winning documentary series about how aerospace was central to the growth of California.
City Rising | KCET | Co-producer | 2017-2020
Emmy® winning documentary anthology series examining social justice issues affecting California communities.
Artbound | KCET | Producer | 2012-2021
Emmy® winning arts and culture documentary series examining the lives, works and creative processes of artists in Southern California (select episodes above).
Artbound Presents Studio A | KCET | Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Producer | 2014-2017
Live music series showcasing Southern California's top musical talent reflecting the diversity of the region.
Live @ The Ford | KCET | Associate Producer | 2012
Live music series celebrating how music and dance can cross boundaries to create a multi-ethnic and multi-generational live TV series.