My storyteller career started under blanket forts with Mema in a magical world of talking bears.
I ran (and won!) my first 50-mile trail race in 2020.
I have an internal ice cream radar that allows me to locate ice cream shops anywhere.
I met my husband while working in Bundibugyo, Uganda, and saw him in 6 different countries before we were married.
I competitively figure skated till I was 16 years old.
I grew up in Birmingham, where I fell in love with storytelling and video editing in high school. I was a bit of a creative misfit—full of passion and ideas, but without a clear path. I spent late nights cutting home movies, completely lit up by the work, yet feeling alone. I didn’t know any women in film, and the only path I was shown was wedding photography, which didn’t inspire me. So I walked away from filmmaking for a while.
Years later, after pursuing other paths but finding my way back to storytelling, I cold-emailed every studio in Birmingham I could find, determined to find a way to learn the craft. One said yes. That unpaid summer internship changed my life—the skills, confidence, and relationships I gained still shape my career today.
It showed me how powerful it is when someone simply opens a door and says, you belong here.
That belief led me to start a summer film camp for high school students in Birmingham. After years of telling stories around the world for nonprofits and global brands, I wanted to come home and create access for the next generation.
The first summer in 2021, watching 12 students tell their own stories with honesty and courage reminded me why I fell in love with filmmaking in the first place.
Today, Bham Film Camp exists to give young people—especially those who have never seen themselves represented in film—a place to discover their own voice, make new connections, and tell their own stories to better the community, one film at a time.