My life in television production began in 1991 when I joined Yellow Cat Productions in Washington, DC. In 1992, I became Vice President of the company working as a producer, writer, director, camera operator, and editor.

I produced and directed independent documentaries and worked with clients in the broadcast, government, and corporate sectors. Clients included Discovery Channel, A&E, History Channel, E! Entertainment TV, Showtime, ABC News, Paramount Pictures, National Institutes of Health, Xerox, AT&T, SESGlobal, Department of Labor, Smithsonian Institution, and the IRS. In addition to these clients, documentary producers from companies in England, Finland and Japan frequently hired Yellow Cat crew when shooting in the Washington, DC area.

One of my favorite pieces is a documentary called Return to Belaye: A Rite of Passage which I wrote, produced, directed and co-shot. It is a personal story about my African husband’s manhood initiation rite in Senegal. It got excellent reviews from critics and won three awards including the Gold for Feature-length Documentary at Worldfest Houston. Tubabs in Africa is another award-winning documentary which I directed and co-shot in Africa. It follows college students on a field study program as they navigate through the Gambian culture, learning about the world and themselves. 

I left Yellow Cat Productions in July 2003 to enjoy life as a freelancer and write screenplays. I immediately landed a job for four months with a British production company (Leopard Films) as their American fixer and assistant producer on a pilot for a reality show called Cha Ching Moneymakers.   Discovery Channel bought the series, and I worked on four more episodes as an assistant producer. I scheduled all the shoots, developed story lines, and acted as an assistant director in the field. 

Since January of 2004 I have been producing and shooting for a variety of clients including HGTV, TLC, BET, Russia Today TV, ESPN, Brave New Films (Iraq for Sale) and Redback Films and Tigervision of London. I also write scripts and my screenplay In the Mouth of the Lion won third prize in the Los Angeles based African Film Commission’s storytelling competition. I recently wrote, directed, edited, and produced a short movie called Run Cody that is now entered in several film festivals. (see website www.runcody.com)

Prior to getting in the television business, I lived in Senegal, West Africa for four years where I was a Peace Corps volunteer and teacher of English as a second language at the American Cultural Center.

As of May 1, 2007, I will be on a great sailing adventure for a year with my partner, Ken Kurlychek. We will head north to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and later, in the fall, make our way down to the Caribbean. I will document our travels with my Panasonic DVX100A.