Jonathan is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, artist, and the founder of Changeworx. For the past five years, his practice has focused on creating museum installations, most recently for an exhibtion in Hangzhou, China. Jonathan’s prior film work as director and/or producer have screened at over 100 film festivals and received support from BBC, PBS, Netflix, NHK-Japan, Ford Foundation, and Sundance Institute. Films he’s worked on have followed people from five continents as their lives unfold over multiple years.

Changeworx’s recent feature credits include the award-winning Being BeBe (Tribeca; New York Times Critics Pick, 2023) about Cameroonian drag artist Marshall Ngwa, and Among the Believers, about a firebrand Pakistani cleric that played 60+ festivals in 25+ countries and won 30+ awards. Jonathan's Silver Telly-winner Follow the Leader premiered in Tampa and Charlotte during the 2012 RNC & DNC conventions, and later aired internationally around the American elections (US release: Angelika Film Center, PBS/America ReFramed, Cinedigm). His first feature Sunny Intervals and Showers aired on BBC (Storyville), and received Grierson and Mental Health Media nominations.

Jonathan was a Fulbright Scholar at the UK’s National Film School (NFTS), after studying psychology, painting, and philosophy at Stanford. His volunteer activities include serving on NY’s Fulbright Association Board; leading the Research & Data Subcommittee of Documentary Producers Alliance; and co-mediating arts disputes via VLA’s MediateArt program. After nearly a decade in London, fifteen years ago Jonathan moved to Brooklyn, where he lives with his family.