Getting a degree in Digital Journalism has enabled me to combine my many years of experience in philanthropy with new tools. Now I have not just the pen, but cameras, recorders, lights and tripods to bring to digital life some of our nation’s most effective social change leaders telling their own stories of hope and inspiration. Clients include Planned Parenthood of New York City, the Flathead Lakers, National Parks Conservation Association, Trout Unlimited, Headwaters Montana, American Rivers, Fair Food Network, IREX and the Communications Network.
November 2022
How Indigenous Values Inspired the Largest Network of Wildlife Crossings in the USA
Originally undertaken on a fellowship with the Solutions Journalism Network, this film was then edited and produced by Mongabay.com, the online nature magazine, and featured in the Yellowstone to Yukon film festival in 2023.
September 2021
New Approaches to Bridging The Racial Wealth Gap
The Every Table Social Equity Franchise Program
This film was originally undertaken on a fellowship with the Solutions Journalism Network and then expanded into a film for Acumen, an organization that invests in transformational companies, builds sustainable markets and prepares leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future.
September 2019
Barry Segal
Philanthropy His Own Way
The Segal Family Foundation hired me to tell the story of how founder Barry Segal came to philanthropy and shook up the funding model for sub-Saharan Africa development organizations.
March 2018
World Smarts STEM Challenge
Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators
In this four-minute video, IREX introduces you to what can happen when high school students in Ghana and the U.S. collaborate on a STEM challenge to solve global environmental problems.
October 2017
Learn To Discern
Citizen Media Literacy in Ukraine and Beyond
In this four-minute video, IREX introduces you to how its media literacy work in Ukraine has successfully trained over 15,000 citizens and reached over 80,000 people.
March 2017
Fair Food Fund
Supporting Food Entrepreneurs Throughout the Northeast
In this short video you will learn how Fair Food Fund is providing the “missing middle” of investment and technical assistance to good food business in eight states.
December 2016
Oil and Water Don’t Mix
Glacier National Park and the Flathead Watershed Under Threat
In this six-minute film commissioned by five Montana conservation organizations, we explore what would happen to the Flathead Basin were an oil train to derail along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River in Glacier National Park.
Multimedia Print Articles
November 2014
Wildlife Crossings
Wildlife Crossings Are Win Win. The question is When When?
June 2015
Small Grants Big Outcomes
“You can’t start a fire without a spark.”
Spring 2016
Government Goes Agile
Helping US federal agencies design inexpensive, user-centered technology products is the mission of an unsung team of developers.
(This article is behind a Stanford Social Innovation Review paywall.)
Winter 2020
A Women’s Movement on Wheels
The women-only transportation program in Papua New Guinea is challenging social norms about gender by improving women’s economic lives and securing girls’ education.
(This article is behind a Stanford Social Innovation Review paywall.)
June 2024
The Backpack Journalist: Digital Storytelling on a Shoestring
Why I left a corner office to become a backpack journalist.