I’m an experienced multimedia producer and reporter with a successful track record in international news and documentary.
Originally from Washington, DC, I now live in London UK working with NBC News on the award-winning longform news documentary program On Assignment with Richard Engel as well as the NBC flagship programs Nightly News and Today Show and streaming platforms News Now and Peacock.
In this role I’ve extensively covered the war in Ukraine, the U.S. withdrawl from Afghanistan, conflict in Gaza, protests in Belarus and the ravages of Covid around the globe.
My career really started in East Africa as a correspondent and bureau chief for Voice of America, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
The result of almost a year of research and planning, we traveled with Richard Engel into the Central African Republic to see how Wagner mercenaries had taken over the country by ingratiating themselves with the government, providing security services in exchange for access to the country’s natural resources.
Working closely with the inernational investigative group The Sentry, we produced some of the most concrete evidence of crimes committed by Wagner during their takeover of the Ndassima gold mine. The company behind the mine was later placed under sanctions.
KHERSON, UKRAINE
This is the story of a group of friends in Kherson, southern Ukraine, who risked everything to stand up to the Russian occupiers who had taken over their city. I was a lead producer on this project, conducting all of the key interviews and filming with the partisans in Kherson, working under difficult and dangerous conditions as Russians continued to rain mortars and missiles down on the city. It was one of my personal favorites, and one of the most successful with over 1 million views on Youtube.
SIVERSK, UKRAINE
This is another story we worked on in the small town of Siversk in Eastern Ukraine, where we met a community of people who, despite Russia’s advances, were refusing to leave, choosing to endure the constant bombardment and hardships of living with water and electrictiy. We also met a dedicated Ukrainian priest who was on a mission to evacuate the most vulnerable before it was too late.
I also wrote this text piece about the people of Siversk.
In addition to our daily news coverage, our team at On Assigment produced two long-form documentaries on Ukraine: Freedom or Death and The Search for Justice
HERAT, AFGHANISTAN
At a small dusty camp on the outskirts of Herat, we met two young girls Benazir and Saliha, who had both been promised to other families for cash by their fathers.
The story touched a lot of people back in the United States and sparked an outreach in Afghanistan that landed the fathers and their community jobs and cash support and, importantly, a promise from them that they would cancel the contract to sell their young daugthers.
Here’s an accompanying text piece to the video.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
I was the field producer in Kabul during the U.S. troop withdrawl, spending chaotic days and nights huddled on the tarmac at the airport - the only safe way out of the country - as thousands scrambled to secure spots on C-17 cargo planes, with little regard for their destinations, in order to escape the Taliban.
We were nominated for an Emmy for our year-long coverage. Our team at On Assignment also worked on a documentary tracing the legacy of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires
WASHINGTON, DC
A bit of an outlier from our usual international work, I was a producer on this investigation into the events of the January 6th siege on the capitol. This was a joint Open Source Investigation with the UK-based investigative group Bellingcat that aired on MSNBC. The project involved combing through hundreds of hours of video and some old-school gumshoe journalism to track down key details about the perpetrators of the attack. We won a Murrow Award for the resulting documentary called Our House.
MINSK, BELARUS
In August 2020, a rare public protest movement poured into the streets of the capital of Belaurs, tens of thousands of people waving a flag of revolution against the unpopular president Alexander Lukashenko who had once again rigged the vote in a recent presidential election.
With the secret police on the lookout for western journalists, being on the ground in Minsk to cover this important story meant darting between safe houses, recording with very low profile camera equipment and being careful who you spoke to and who you trusted. It was one of my more challenging but ultimately rewarding assignments.
GAZA CITY, GAZA
There is really no other place where you get such a sense of division and injustice compared to Gaza, where people live with so little. After generations of living in what is essentially an open air prison, the last time Palestinian militants started firing rockets, there was a change in public perception. While many of the Palestinians we spoke to say they don’t want war, they recognize that the only time the world really pays attention to their plight, is when the rockets are flying.
This is a longer piece we produced based on the experiences of people in Israel and Gaza over recent decades and a look back at Richard Engels’s work covering the conflict.
past work
You can view some of my older work from NBC and VOA News in East Africa here:
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