I am an award-winning executive producer and content strategist who leads large creative teams to craft story-rich, emotionally resonant media. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I oversaw a team of 25 contributors across video, audio, and editorial, guiding the development of multiplatform storytelling projects such as Immaterial, Met Stories, MetKids Microscope, and Harlem Is Everywhere. These projects have earned Shorty, Anthem, Webby, and Museums + Heritage awards—and together, they demonstrate how museums can connect with audiences through inclusive, accessible, and beautifully produced narratives.
Over the course of my career, I’ve interviewed more than 100 artists, curators, and cultural leaders—including Mark Bradford, Doris Salcedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye—and directed production teams across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. As the founding Digital Media Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, I built the video program from the ground up, establishing its first team, equipment, and production workflows. I continued that momentum as Director of Digital Media at the Clyfford Still Museum, and as a consultant and field producer with organizations including Art21 and the Biennial of the Americas. Across all this work, the throughline is my commitment to crafting powerful, documentary-style stories that move people and elevate institutional missions.
Met Stories: Human-Centered Storytelling That Redefines Institutional Voice
Role: Executive Producer & Series Director
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2019–2020
Format: Short-Form Video Series
Your MET stories are a compelling invitation. You’ve replaced the institutional facade with human experience. The very core idea of art itself. Well done. —Instagram User Comment
Created as the marquee digital content for The Met’s 150th anniversary, Met Stories is a video series that redefined how museums engage with their publics—not by offering a peek behind the scenes or spotlighting curatorial voices, but by treating lived experience as its own form of —cultural expertise. As Executive Producer, I shaped the editorial vision and led a team in crafting emotionally resonant, documentary-style portraits of visitors, staff, and community members reflecting on what The Met means to them.
Through layered and honest storytelling, the series explored museums not only as sources of inspiration, learning, and solace, but also as sites of exclusion, memory, and healing. What emerged was a portrait of the museum as a shared space—a place where people come to feel understood, to teach and be taught, to reflect, to feel seen. This series marked a significant step forward in The Met’s work to cultivate mutual belonging with its audiences.
Met Stories received a Shorty Award for Best Cultural Institution, the Museums + Heritage Award for Best Use of Digital (International), and was named a Webby Honoree in Arts & Entertainment.
MetKids Microscope: STEAM Education for Kids at Home
Role: Executive Producer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2020–2025
Format: Animated Video Series
When in-person filming became impossible during the pandemic, I led the creation of MetKids Microscope—a fully animated series under the MetKids brand. Designed to meet the urgent needs of at-home learners, the series brings art and science together through a STEAM lens, drawing from conservation and materials research at The Met.
With playful narration, kinetic visuals, and accessible storytelling, Microscope became a touchstone for creative learning during a moment of crisis—and remains a vital part of The Met’s educational media offerings.
Immaterial: A Top-Ranked Podcast Uncovering the Hidden Lives of Materials
Role: Executive Producer, Editorial Lead, Content Strategist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2019–2024
Format: Narrative Podcast
“I’ve gotten goosebumps listening and imagining myself walking through the MET hopefully one day I can make the dream come true and place myself in the middle of all the beautiful stories you’ve been so generous to share with us. Thank you.” —Survey Response
Immaterial is a narrative podcast I created and led from concept to launch, each episode focusing on a single material—stone, paper, jade, clay, and more—to explore deep art histories across time and place.
Lauded for its storytelling and inclusive editorial approach, the show became the #1 visual arts podcast on Apple in the U.S., with more than 308,000 downloads and 55,000+ hours consumed. Featured by Apple multiple times, Immaterial is both a storytelling success and a benchmark for audience engagement.
Harlem Is Everywhere: A Dual-Format Audio Experience That Won Gold
Role: Executive Producer and Content Strategist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2024
Format: Narrative Podcast & In-Gallery Audio Guide
To accompany the exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, I led the production team in the creation of a two-part audio project: a podcast for general audiences and an in-gallery guide for visitors. Informed by listener behavior data and original visitor research, the project tailored its content for each setting—immersive storytelling for the podcast, and reflective, accessible narration in-gallery.
What made this project exceptional was its dual impact—it offered a rich, reflective experience for onsite visitors and a deeply engaging narrative for those who may never step into the museum. Designed to meet people wherever they are—geographically, experientially, or emotionally—it models what inclusive, user-centered interpretive media can be.
As the only podcast entirely devoted to the history of the Harlem Renaissance, the work earned a Gold Anthem Award and a Shorty Award for excellence in cultural programming. This project represents a forward-looking standard for how museums can expand access, deepen engagement, and tell powerful stories across platforms.
Listen to the podcast →
Explore the in-gallery audio guide →
Shade: Mark Bradford & Clyfford Still — Exploring Abstraction Through Conversation
Role: Director and Producer
Denver Art Museum & Clyfford Still Museum | 2017
Format: Exhibition Film
“Let’s make abstract painting, and let’s imbue it with policy, and political, and gender, and race, and sexuality … let’s make the context full.” —Mark Bradford
Produced as a companion to the exhibition Shade, this video features renowned contemporary artist Mark Bradford on the conceptual foundations of his work and the process by which he makes it. The final video was featured prominently in the Clyfford Still Museum and the Denver Art Museum for the duration of the exhibition and continues to be available to Clyfford Still Museum visitors onsite and online.
Shade examined both Bradford’s and abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still’s unique relationship to the color black—whether used to force viewers out of their comfort zones, evoke emotions, or confront conventional notions of race. Always a quotable interview subject, Bradford breaks down his complex and layered work in the most delightful ways: “But black is like Voldemort. It will cause you to fail. It is the most difficult color to work with. But yet, for me it’s the most satisfying. It has that depth to it. It has like fear and possibility for me.”
A Daughter’s Voice: Clyfford Still Museum’s first narrative podcast
Role: Executive Producer
Clyfford Still Museum | 2018–2019
Format: Narrative Podcast
In the fall of 2018, the Clyfford Still Museum presented A Daughter’s Eye / A Daughter’s Voice, an exhibition curated by Sandra Still Campbell, Clyfford Still’s younger daughter. For the exhibition, I produced a narrative podcast that I installed in the galleries and made available online. The goal of the podcast was to create an intimate portrait of Clyfford Still—a man known for being relentlessly harsh with critics, curators, and even fellow artists—who became more myth than man in the later decades of his life.
I hoped to evoke honest emotion through authentic and reflective content. Sandra describes heartwarming and heartbreaking times with her father, from whom she desperately sought love and approval. Yet over a lifetime she comes to appreciate his genius and forgives his shortcomings as a father. Through this relevant and relatable story of a complex family dynamic, we understand one of America’s most important art movements and least understood artists.
The podcast features a moving and original score, and weaves in archival recordings of Clyfford Still for a rich and layered audio experience. The story ends with a recording of Clyfford saying, “I am not seeking immortality. I am simply reminding those who hear me, or see the work, that truth should be of paramount importance.” In this way, the podcast takes on a prescient tone and addresses something bigger than itself.
A film for Doris Salcedo’s retrospective
“Every time a person is killed, there is an absence that is created in us, and that absence should be addressed.” —Doris Salcedo
This 25-minute film documents the scale, intimacy, and emotional depth of Doris Salcedo’s site-specific and large-scale public projects—a significant aspect of her artistic production throughout her career.
The film weaves together new and old footage from around the world, including interviews with her studio partners, curators and gallerists, Tate Director Sir Nicholas Serota, and the artist herself in her studio in Bogotá, Colombia. It beautifully captures Salcedo’s evocative reflections on absence and social injustice.
The final film was featured in Salcedo’s retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Pérez Art Museum.
Amalia Pica: A charming and relatable video portrait for MCA Chicago
Role: Director and Producer
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | 2014–2015
Format: Artist Video Profile
“I make a work and I think, what would my mom think of it?” —Amalia Pica
This video features the work of artist Amalia Pica on the occasion of her first major solo museum show in the United States at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Pica uses simple materials—lightbulbs, drinking glasses, beer bottles, and other found materials—to create work that explores metaphor, communication, and language.
Combining behind-the-scenes footage with solid commentary on the conceptual themes that run through Pica’s work, the final edit includes a wonderfully personal and relatable thought by the artist, “I make a work and I think, what would my mom think of it?”
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