EDUCATION
2003 MFA in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1999 BA in Anthropology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS (select)
2025 – Dirt House Residency, Providence, Rhode Island
2025 – Art Connects Grant in collaboration with The Arts Center of the Capital Region and the NEA
2024 - FlagSSS Day residency at the Idea Lab, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY
2023 - NYSCA Community Arts Grant, FlagSSS Day w/ Hana Van der Kolk and Angela Beallor
2023 - Skidmore MDOCS Community Partner with the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, Saratoga, NY
2019 - Signal Culture Artist Residency, Owego, NY
2017 - NYSCA Community Arts Grant, with Angela Beallor, Troy, NY
2001 – Fulbright Scholar, Dominican Republic
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (select)
JAN 2018 - PRESENT - RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, TROY, NY
• Lecturer (2018-2024), Senior Lecturer (2024-Present): Arts - Teach Digital Filmmaking, Writing & Directing for Video, Television Production, Advanced Studio Production, Intermediate Video, Radio and Podcasting
SEPT 2015 -DEC 2018 - FULTON-MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, JOHNSTOWN, NY
Instructor: Journalism and Broadcast Communications
• Classes include Journalism, Media Writing, Introduction to Mass Communications, Television Production, Advanced TV Production, Basic Audio Production, New Media. Manage School Newspaper.
2013-2015 - DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION, NEW YORK, NY
Instructor: Guerrilla Filmmaking, Camera Basics, HDSLR
AUG 2012 – MAY 2013 - THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK, NY
Adjunct Professor: Screen Toolkit in Video Production classes
FALL 2009 - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NY
Adjunct Professor: Video Production and Community Activism
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MAR 2003 -2016 - DEMOCRACY NOW!, NEW YORK, NY
TV Producer/Editor/Camera Person/Technical Director
JAN 2013 - JAN 2016 - THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Video Manager & Freelance Photography and Videographer/Producer
• Provide multimedia coverage of international negotiations on sustainable development.
Managing team of 13 video producers and videographer/editors.
JUL 2013 - AUG 2015 - BRIC - Brooklyn Independent Media, NEW YORK, NY
Camera Operator and Technical Director
• Work on BK Live daily show and music captures including Celebrate Brooklyn.
OCT 2007 – FEB 2013 - STREETFILMS.ORG, NEW YORK, NY
Producer/Director
• Write, produce, shoot, edit, upload, distribute, promote short videos documenting best practices in bicycling, walking and mass transit
SEPT 2008 – AUG 2009 - WNET/WORLDFOCUS, NEW YORK, NY
Composite Editor/ Promo Editor
• Composite edit thirty-minute daily show (Worldfocus) for broadcast on PBS.
2008 – 2009 - GRIT TV WITH LAURA FLANDERS, NEW YORK, NY
Technical Director for one-hour live-to-tape current affairs show.
WORK CREATED (select)
2025 - FlagSSS Day Single channel featuring Brasskill
2024 – FlagSSS Day Single channel video featuring the Funkrust Brass band
2024 – The Motherload (Film), by Van Tran Nguyen and Alex Derwick, I was Director of Photography. It is currently running a film festival circuit. Premiered at the 44th Hawaii International Film Festival
2023 - FlagSSS Day projection, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy. NY
2022 - Pandemic Letters: #3 for Sylvan (again) Single-channel video February
2020 - JusticeForEdson.com with Dan Phiffer and Angela Beallor
2019 - FlagSSS Day Promo, single channel video
2017- Present - WOOC 105.3FM (producer, reporter) - Produced 100s of segments for The Hudson Mohawk Magazine. Segments cover local politics, policing, immigration and prison reform policies, and LGBTQ+ topics.
PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, and PAPERS (select)
2025 – Lesbian Lives Conference “Let’s Process a Lesbian Procession, New York, NY
2024 - Grassroots radio conference presentation, “We are not Just a Radio Station” - New Orleans, Louisiana (Sept.)
2024 – FEMeeting Presentation, “Co-Developing Strategies for Creative Collaborative Documentation” Windsor, Ontario,
2024 – Flag-Making Workshop Blackwood Gallery Mississauga, ON, Canada (September)
2023 - “Queer Re/Productions: Exploring Care Work through Collaborative Art-Making” by Angela Beallor and Elizabeth “EP” Press. This paper submitted to Journal of Mother Studies (September)
2023 -Modeling Hyperlocal Media in a News Desert - Local Journalism with Community Journalists paper written for The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (June)
FlagSSS DAY PROCESSIONS AND EVENTS (selected)
2025
-Under Cover of Darkness, We Look Out For Each Other: Fourth Annual Crow Procession, Troy, NY
-Red, Public parade, Troy, NY
-Earthling Parade, Celebratory Procession, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
2024
-Collar Works x ChaShaMa, “FlagSSS Day,” Installation of flags, banners, video, Troy, NY
-Bring the Heat: Third Annual Crow Procession, Troy, NY
-SnailCore Flag Corps, Quiet Parade, Blackwoods Gallery, Public parade, Toronto, Canada