Austin, TX, USA
$150 - $1000 / Day
I'm a producer, journalist and documentary filmmaker. I’ve produced in Myanmar, Korea, India, Guam, above the Arctic Circle in rural Alaska, in the cab of a semi truck, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Nacogdoches, Texas. I’ve interviewed Bill Nye, violent Buddhist monks, and mothers who have lost children to gun violence. I've won numerous awards for the documentary series Untold America which I produced for AJ+ / Al Jazeera and my content is regularly viewed by millions of people online.
Produced for Los Angeles Times
One out of every 10 Korean Americans are adopted. But why? And what’s it like for adoptees to return to their birthland for the first time? Untold America follows one Korean American teenager from the suburbs of Boston to the city of Seoul to meet his foster mother for the first time since he was adopted.
Produced for AJPlus
Pearl Pearson is a Deaf, Black man who survived a brutal beating by Oklahoma Highway Patrol in 2014. Not only were the troopers cleared of wrongdoing, but Pearl was also charged with resisting arrest. This is his story.
Produced for AJPlus
When the United States bought Alaska from the Russians in 1867, Alaska's indigenous people had already been living there for thousands of years. Alaska Natives have had to fight to keep their land, from the point of contact to present day.
In South Korea, one in three women under 30 has had plastic surgery — most often to enlarge their eyes, and now to slim their faces too. It’s a trend that’s influenced by selfie apps like Snow and Facetune, and K-pop stars like SixBomb and Kwanghee. And now Americans are also taking part. Untold America travels to Seoul, South Korea, to tour a plastic surgery clinic in Gangnam, talk to a Korean feminist fighting the country’s rigid beauty standards with the Escape the Corset movement, and interview a young American who flew from New York to have V-line surgery in Seoul.
Shaheem Sanchez is a Deaf dancer and instructor with his own method of feeling music's vibrations to learn a song.
What's it like to be a young Deaf college student at Gallaudet University? Gallaudet isn't just a school – it's the center of the American Deaf community. Here's why there's so much more to being Deaf than you think.
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