I’m an Emmy award-winning independent multimedia journalist and filmmaker born and raised in Kailua, Hawaiʻi. I worked in the journalism industry for more than two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. During the summer of 2023 I moved with my family back to Hawaiʻi — we landed in Haʻikū, Maui. Twelve days after we arrived on Maui, the island was swept by deadly wildfires. I reported on the fires with NBC’s Digital Documentaries team, and a year later I wrote about that experience in a personal essay for The Atlantic. I’m now writing a series of essays for Hawaiʻi Public Radio called “Postcards” and I’m working on a book — a reported memoir about the complex histories of the many Hawaiʻi places where I’ve lived. During the 2023-24 school term I was an Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia journalism graduate school. I’ve directed and produced projects for ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and VICE — including a six-episode illustrated documentary series for VICE News called Correspondent Confidential. The video I directed and produced for ICIJ — “Victims of Offshore” — was part of the Panama Papers investigation, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. Before that I was Senior Multimedia Producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where I led digital storytelling and multimedia projects for six years. The illustrated video I directed and produced for CIR — “In Jennifer’s Room” — won a national Emmy award for New Approaches to News and Documentary, as well as a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, a Gracie, and other awards. My specialty is developing character-driven narratives that experiment with 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 and book editor, newspaper reporter, video journalist, and travel book author. I completed a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2005.