ABOUT

For as long as I can remember, people have shared their stories with me.

As a child, I found myself listening — not just to what people were saying, but to how the pieces of who they were fit together. The experiences that shaped them. The choices they made. The moments that changed the course of their lives. I was fascinated by the connections, the patterns, and the often-unseen forces that make us who we are.

Looking back, it's no surprise that I built a career around storytelling.

That curiosity shaped my education and career, guiding me toward a life built around storytelling. Along the way, it has also shaped the projects I've pursued, the people I've worked alongside, and the stories I've chosen to tell.

Fresh out of college, my professional journey began at Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind The Real World and a pioneering force in modern nonfiction television. There, I learned one of the most important lessons of my career: some of the most compelling stories aren't found in extraordinary circumstances, but in the lives of ordinary people navigating them.

From there, I moved into national newsrooms at FOX and NBC, experiences that sharpened my instinct for finding the personal stakes within larger cultural conversations.

I later worked extensively with Academy Award-winning documentarian Arnold Shapiro on projects exploring complex social issues, including violence, race, and addiction, and their far-reaching impact on individuals, families, and communities.

Over the years, I collaborated with acclaimed journalist Maria Shriver on national primetime broadcast documentaries exploring a wide range of human-interest stories and issues. That collaboration later extended beyond television when Shriver served as First Lady of California, where I helped develop content and programming for The Women's Conference, a landmark event that drew more than 30,000 attendees and reached audiences around the world.

One of the most meaningful chapters of my career was producing The Teen Files, a documentary series exploring the lives of 21st-century teenagers. The series earned two Primetime Emmys and the Television Academy's Governors Award, the Academy's highest honor recognizing work that uses television to create meaningful social impact.

My instinct for recognizing compelling stories led me to co-create and serve as showrunner of The Naughty Kitchen with Chef Blythe Beck for NBCUniversal's Oxygen. In Blythe, I saw a talented, outspoken young chef determined to make her mark in the traditionally male-dominated world of professional kitchens — a story I helped develop, pitch, and sell as a series.

While my foundation is in nonfiction, my work increasingly centers on scripted television, where I bring decades of real-world storytelling experience to character-driven narratives informed by the complexities of real life.

Over the years, I've had the privilege of telling stories about people from every walk of life — teenagers and politicians, entertainers and inmates, law enforcement officers and survivalists, public figures and private citizens. Despite their differences, I've found myself returning to the same question time and again:

What shapes us into who we become — and how do we carry that into the world?