Education – Tour Guide Docent / Gallery Interpreter at Petersen Automotive Museum (2023-01 – Present)
- Entertain thousands of guests with vehicle histories and rotating exhibits in museum galleries
- Communicate to non-English speakers in French, Czech, Slovak and some Italian and Spanish
- Fantastic character depictions, wide range of voices, hilarious sense of humor, great with guests
- Provide entertaining presentation and content development for school, museum-hour private tours
- Comfortable with kids, fantastic child-care and educational skills, years of experience as a nanny and after-school teacher
- Excellent customer service, guest relations skills, graceful handling of high profile guests
- Technical management and troubleshooting with video, electronic and AV responsibilities
- Love of costumes, role playing and acting
- Professional children's theater actor, lettered in Drama in high school, extensive experience in theater, portrayed Yente in Fiddler on the Roof and recurring roles at the Aurora Fox Arts Theater
- Voice talent character work including hit podcast PREVAIL by Greg Olear
Escape Room Host at Petersen Automotive Museum
- Public event requiring crowd entertainment, management and directing to appropriate tour lanes
- Conducted private paranormal investigations of the haunted museum
Rotating Cast Member at Tiffany Plaza Haunted House
- Frightened guests in roles such as Exorcist nun, Bram Stoker's vampire & medieval torture victim
Founder / Executive Director / Program Manager / Volunteer Coordinator at Cinefemme (2002-01 – Present)
- Co-founded and operates successful 501-©(3) non-profit charitable organization for women filmmakers
- Maintains all programs, volunteer outreach and coordination, membership Wrote and drafted dozens of grant applications, organizational overviews, board letters, donor deck and impact reports
- Generates program summaries, expense reports, drafts and executes contracts, writes website copy
- Produced over 70 features, shorts, festivals and other projects via fiscal sponsorship (15 new in 2025)
- Communicates and coordinates with dozens of staff, members, clients, departments, board of directors Develop, establish, develop, administrate & staff diverse slate of programs including Membership, Fiscal Sponsorship, Cinefemme Director's Collective
- Oversees workflow between staff and projects, coordinating media, assets, from concept to completion
- Social Media Accounts: Management, branding strategies, digital asset creation, audience engagement
- Growth of followers and engagement on vertical platforms, social media channels and via strategic marketing, communications, purchase, design, marketing materials, press releases, public outreach
- Designed and maintain website; Co-created a user friendly platform/ improved backend for easy member and program management, fundraising portals and specific project elevation
- Measures site engagement metrics re income/fundraising growth and goals
- Performs outreach between organization and prospective program partners, vendors and employers
- Right / Left brain ability; Tech experienced; Interfaces well between technical, creative, admin teams
- Perform complex analysis and create business reports that surface key learnings for new initiatives
- Developed membership launch, increasing revenue by 200% in 2 fiscal years via automated tech tools
- Marketing for press releases, social media, graphic design, copywriting, crowdfunding campaigns
- Excellent creative skills and calm demeanor; Exceptional ability to handle diverse personalities with ease
Grant Program Manager at Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership (2022-01 – 2023-12)
- Set up and administered a national five year 250K grant program funded by American Express
Producer / Camera Operator / Editor / Public Speaker at Route 66 Women
- Developed and released a lesson plans for a Girl Scout educational curriculum for the docuseries. It was beta-tested at Petersen Museum with a real 100 year-old Rosie the Riveter.
- Produced, wrote, shot dozens of on-site interviews and B-roll around locations all over Route 66 for a three-part PBS television docuseries distributed by American Public Television nationally on PBS.
Producer – Writer at Assertion Films (2015-01 – Present)
- Produced research, outreach, and client casting materials for fifteen unscripted "real people" national advertising campaigns (BBDO and other agencies) for major brands: American Family Insurance's "Dream Fearlessly" campaigns w/JJ Watt, Kevin Durant, Derek Jeter, Jennifer Hudson
- Editorial work on pitch boards, casting reels, casting files, preinterviews, story development, messaging
- Extensive research, preinterviews, live interviews, BTS and b-roll shooting of documentary subjects
- Four state educational tour presenting docuseries materials and beta-testing Girl Scout educational curriculum developed with the Preserve 66 Grant Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Historic Route 66 Arizona, Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program and Road Ahead Partnership
Paralegal at Vasquez, Estrada & Conway LLC (2005-01 – 2017-12)
- Support and assist busy attorneys in high-pressure, fast-paced law office
- Diligent attention to detail, clerical accuracy, and efficiency with adherence to tight deadlines.
- Draft legal documents, create and maintain large client database, historical research and analysis
Associate Producer at RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 10)
Including one live event, Emmy-winning show
Producer / Camera Operator at RuPaul's Drag Con
- Shot roving Sony camera celebrity interviews, performances, panels, red carpets, B-roll
Director Shadow at Shooter (Scripted Television Show, Paramount Pictures, USA Network)
Producer / Director / DP / Editor at Red Star: River to Freedom
Feature-length documentary with two week, four country field international production
Staff Writer at Ms. In the Biz
10 articles, digital media platform
Producer, Camera Operator, Editor at Wu-Tang Clan
Produced, shot, edited live performance of Final Chamber tour
Producer, Camera Operator at Suicidal Tendencies
Produced, shot and promoted the reunion of iconic punk band
Producer, Camera Operator, Editor at Teatro Zinzanni
Produced, shot, edited films for performers at San Francisco vaudeville cabaret circus
TV episode Director at Galaxy Confidencial / LA Galaxy Soccer Team
Time Warner Desportes Network
Production Coordinator at 2307: Winter's Dream / Thorium 7 Films
Feature Film
Production Manager at NASA / "Inventing the Future" Children's Educational Films
Producer, Director, Editor at Highway to Yodel-Ay-Hee-Huuu
Award-winning original music video
Producer at ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards
- Wrote questions and conducted on-screen interviews of celebrity award recipients.
