I wanted to be a National Geographic photographer when I grew up. Being an in-house photographer and filmmaker working alongside engineers has been a pretty great backup choice.
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I grew up chasing hawks and singing to deer in the hills of Northern California. Now I love witnessing, participating in, and celebrating teams of people trying to solve some of the world’s hardest problems.
I’ve spent most of my career embedded inside ambitious technical teams, helping translate complex work into true, useful, and compelling stories. I make whatever it takes to bring people along for the journey, which usually takes the form of photographs, films, writing, design, internal communications, press materials, events, and the occasional piece of swag.
I’m currently Creative Director and Communications Lead at Rain, where we’re building autonomous aerial wildfire management tools: think Black Hawks flown via iPads. Before Rain, I led culture and communications at Kittyhawk, an eVTOL aviation company, and spent nearly fourteen years documenting Makani’s experimental airborne wind energy technology from startup through Google X’s secretive Moonshot Factory.
Before climate and aviation technology, I made documentary work about terrace agriculture in the Andes of Peru, created photojournalism books, and studied photography at Parsons School of Design.
I live in the Bay Area with my husband, son, cats, sister, nephews, a little dog, and a garden that’s often full of neighbors. My favorite hobby is making mischief that brings people together.
