About

I'm an Emmy award-winning independent journalist and filmmaker born and raised in Kailua, Hawaii. I worked in journalism for more than a decade in the SF Bay Area, and I'm now based in Haiku, Maui. I recently directed and produced projects for ProPublica, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and VICE—including a six-episode illustrated documentary series for VICE News called Correspondent Confidential. For six years I led multimedia projects at the Center for Investigative Reporting as Senior Multimedia Producer. My specialty is narrative multimedia storytelling and exploring ways to use digital media tools—including video, audio, photography, animation, and interactive graphics—to push the boundaries of storytelling on the Web and other platforms. Before I got into multimedia I was a magazine editor, newspaper reporter, video journalist, and travel book author. I completed a master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2005.

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