The Work

I’m a communications strategist, filmmaker, and doctoral researcher with 15 years working at the intersection of media, policy, and technology. I’ve built global campaigns, shaped state policy, and sat with communities whose stories deserved a better instrument than a press release. Currently Publications Manager at the Washington State Department of Commerce, Creative Director for the Haring Center’s IPTN initiative at UW, and a doctoral student in Information Science — studying how making is itself a form of knowing.

My career runs from international campaigns for Siemens and a Cannes Silver Dolphin, to leading Washington State’s AI guidance for K–12 schools, to my current work as Publications Manager in the Washington State Department of Commerce Director’s Office — sitting at the intersection of policy and communication for executive and legislative audiences. As Creative Director for the Haring Center at UW, I lead integrated communications strategy for the Inclusionary Practices Technical Assistance Network, connecting inclusive education research to schools, districts, and disability communities statewide.

I think like an information architect — designing how ideas move from first question to final distribution. I work with communities, not for them, using film as a research instrument and co-creation as a methodology. My doctoral research at UW’s iSchool centers on production-as-literacy: the idea that making is itself a form of knowing.