Experience 

Founder and President 

371 Productions, Atlanta based production company 2003 -present (21 years) 

Co-founder and COO 

Custom Reality Services, a VR startup 2015 - 2019 (4 years) 

Founder, Director and Professor 

docUWM, a documentary media center at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee 2003 - 2008 (5 years) 

Producer

Lumiere Productions, a NYC based production company 1994 - 2002 (8 years) 

Work

Producer, IT MIGHT GET BLACK (current, with Time Studios) A musicological true crime story about how Rock n’ Roll was stolen from Black rockers featuring the iconic Black rock band, Living Colour, from the 90s and their biggest fan, comedian W. Kamau Bell

Executive Producer, GUNSHOW (current) A podcast about people and their relationships with guns, produced and hosted by gunshot survivor Claude Motley and me, director of the Emmy award winning film, WHEN CLAUDE GOT SHOT, and produced in partnership with Campside Media.

Producer & Co-Director, SEIZURE w.t. (current) personal feature doc co-directed Skylar Economy telling her story of reckoning with her secret of Epilepsy.

Producer & Director, RITTENHOUSE UNMASKED w.t. (current, with Pantheon Entertainment) limited series revealing unknown aspects of Kyle Rittenhouse and never before seen evidence that may have impacted the outcome of his criminal trial.

Producer & Director, AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 (2024 American Experience PBS) feature doc about the little known Wilmington, NC coup and race massacre, co-directed with Yoruba Richen, Peabody nominated.

Producer & Director, AMERICAN RECKONING (2022 Frontline PBS, Emmy nomination) feature doc about an unsolved civil-rights era murder, co-directed with Yoruba Richen, EPd by Dawn Porter, nominated for News and Doc Emmy.

Producer & Director, WHEN CLAUDE GOT SHOT (2021 SXSW premiere, Creative Arts Emmy Win, PBS Independent Lens) 

feature doc about survivor of gun violence, produced with ITVS, Snoop Dogg, Stickfigure, winner Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Merit in Documentary, nationwide impact campaign.

Producer & Director, EMERSON CORP. VR EXPERIENCE (2022) 

VR experience for trade shows that takes participants inside a gas separation and capture process.

Producer & Director, MESSWOOD (2021 DOCNYC premiere, Participant Media Studios wide release) feature doc about a football team combining two schools, one predominantly white, the other predominantly Black, co-directed with Emily Kuester.

Producer & Director, RINGELBLUM VR EXPERIENCE (2020 US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM) VR experience based on the story of a woman who saved lives in Poland during WW2.

Producer & Director, METCALFE PARK: BLACK VOTE RISING (2020 PBS WORLD and INTERCEPT) short doc about a community led mutual aid and voting rights organisation, co-directed with Miela Fetaw.

Producer & Director, ASHE ‘68 VR EXPERIENCE (2019 Sundance premiere, Installation at US Open and US Tennis Hall of Fame) 

VR experience about famed tennis star and activist Arthur Ashe, supported by Rolex.

Producer & Director, COPING WITH ALZHEIMERS (2017 New York Times) virtual reality film about a family adapting and supporting a loved one with Alzheimer's. 

Producer & Director, ACROSS THE LINE VR EXPERIENCE (2016 Sundance premiere) virtual reality film about a woman accessing an abortion health center amid hostile protesters...made with Nonny De La Peña (Emblematic Group) & Jeff Fitzsimmons (Custom Reality Services) with Planned Parenthood.

Producer & Director, THERE ARE JEWS HERE (2016 San Francisco Jewish FF premiere, PBS World) 

feature doc about disappearing Jewish communities in rural America. 

Episode Producer & Director, POSTCARDS FROM THE GREAT DIVIDE (2016 WASHINGTON POST and PBS) 

A short doc about disappearing civility in politics. 

Executive Producer PRECIOUS LIVES RADIO SHOW AND PODCAST (2015 - 2017) 101 episode RADIO/PODCAST SERIES in partnership with Milwaukee Public Radio, WNOV urban talk radio, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism) about gun violence...selected for Localore, Peabody finalist, central to gun violence prevention effort in city of Milwaukee. 

Story Producer HARD EARNED (2015 - AL JAZEERA AMERICA series)

       Kartemquin Film’s 6-part series on low-wage workers in America...Dupont winner and International 

       Documentary Association award nomination. 

Producer & Director PENELOPE (2015, PBS)

feature documentary about an innovative arts project featuring a nursing home performing Homer’s Odyssey from Penelope’s pov. 

Producer & Director FAULTLINES: WISCONSIN MINING STANDOFF (2015 AL JAZEERA AMERICA)

investigative documentary about a proposed iron mine in Northern Wisconsin. 

Project Lead BIZZVIZZ (2013)

corporate accountability app with over 32K users. 

Producer & Director AS GOES JANESVILLE (2012, Emmy Nomination, PBS)

feature documentary about laid off workers and community leaders trying to reinvent their lives in the wake of GM’s shutdown and Wisconsin’s civil war over unions, produced with ITVS.

Producer & Director ALMOST HOME (2006, PBS) feature documentary about people who    live and work in a long term care facility trying to be more humane, produced with ITVS, nationwide impact campaign.

Producer & Director CHILDREN OF WAR (2003, WNET - NOW with Bill Moyers)

documentary segment about Ping Chong's theater project with children survivors of war.

Producer & Director CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE (2002, PBS)

documentary about Arab-Americans in the wake of 9/11 co-directed with David Van Taylor. 

Producer & Director GHOSTS OF ATTICA (2001, BBC, COURT TV, Dupont Award) feature documentary about the infamous uprising and 30-year aftermath, with Lumiere Productions.

Producer LOCAL NEWS (2001, PBS)

5-part documentary series following a year inside a TV newsroom, with Lumiere Productions.

Producer & Director SAFE (2000, DISCOVERY) documentary about 3 women escaping domestic violence in a secret safe-house. 

Producer & Director ANDRE’S LIVES (1999, First Run Features, Icarus Films)

feature documentary about the “Jewish Schindler”. 

Associate Producer WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE (1996, PBS) 6 part series about the history of the religious right in America.

Associate Producer THE CHOICE ‘96 (1996, PBS Frontline)

documentary about the Clinton vs. Dole presidential election...Peabody winner. 

Current Service

Board Member, WABE (Atlanta’s public television and radio station)

Board Member, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

Education 

University of Vermont 

B.A., Philosophy 

1986 - 1990