I am a visual storyteller with over ten years of professional experience, from visual journalism and documentary filmmaking to brand storytelling and social media strategy. This career provides countless opportunities to be exposed to a variety of personalities, cultures, and values that characterize my community.  As visual communicators, we bear a delicate responsibility of sharing the most intimate sides of humanity, while honoring every story to avoid perpetuating limiting constructs and disparities.  I hope to carry this duty forward using actions rooted in facilitating empathy, inclusion, understanding, honesty, and liberation.

I grew up in Littleton and Lakewood, Colorado, where a large majority of my family settled after fleeing the Vietnam War. I graduated from Colorado State University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in Technical Journalism.  I have returned to CSU and Fort Collins to support my partner's journey in veterinary medicine.  In 2022, I completed my Master of Science degree in Journalism and Media Communication.  My areas of study include narrative theory and effects, filmmaking, and digital storytelling.  Now, I work as a video storyteller and multimedia producer for CSU's central communications team. 

I am passionate about covering stories within the arts, social and environmental justice, displacement and diaspora, cuisine, the arts, and LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC  communities. I hope to work with more communities that are unfamiliar to me, who challenge my existing beliefs or cultivate new ways of thinking. Fear of the unknown often divides us, and I hope to share my exposures with others to help make some of the unfamiliar feel more familiar.  Let's connect, I hope to learn from you.