https://www.dunsnap.com/home daily 1.0 2026-07-06 https://www.dunsnap.com/about daily 0.75 2026-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598594162940-A0MQHTK6I267VC4818RK/20190304-3B6B8266.jpg About - 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. — 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598636902161-HRL1AL3Y7LZ96B9YT3VW/Screen+Shot+2020-08-28+at+10.47.49+AM.png About - Sierra Club Magazine Feature Profile on me and my work for Makani. https://www.dunsnap.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-10 https://www.dunsnap.com/work daily 0.75 2026-04-25 https://www.dunsnap.com/work/makani monthly 0.5 2021-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598591831901-UNXVM187F90UPKTZCCM9/20170203-3B6B8009.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598591867447-KDWDWF8K4BG443JM9FT5/20170627-20170627-20170627-3B6B2694.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592087548-MHY0XT50D7PASKYH0V58/20190728-0Z0A2085.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592029960-0X58AH6GA59XAXOUSLNZ/20190808-0Z0A3480.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592163982-3GWOP502WEXHZ6MMEB2Z/20131210-20131210-20131210-3B6B6423.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592175439-XUY6J4JQ9V36GOSODJOI/20130418-3B6B6894.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592173548-VVDFKIT5J8S7PTLVQ4LA/20120328-IMG_0054.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592185107-SXM1LCZHM71S2XF2X13Q/20120131-20120131-20120131-20120131-IMG_6323.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592156956-DU6FAMDPJP0T4LK2YO1K/20101215-IMG_9835.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1598592209269-Y0XSGIEWHC26Y7YTZB33/20100618-IMG_4326.jpg Work - Makani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1599625757327-4P6Y289PK86KQL7Y1WRY/20080925-IMG_1024.jpg Work - Makani - In 2007 almost the very first footage I captured at Makani has Saul Griffith, one of Makani’s founders, introducing me as the person who will, “make a cutting-edge, semi-satirical, light-hearted docu-comedy about the creation of an X-men and -women team of people who take on a really hard project and make it all work due to their ninja X-women and -men skills and approach.” That worked pretty well as a mission statement for many years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1599626032434-CSM9PWOHPU8PNA9CG6G2/20130917-3B6B2220.jpg Work - Makani - In 2013, still at Makani, I revised it slightly for myself: “I am making an honest, useful, hilarious, beautiful, surprising record of the work of an incredible team of people working on hard problems.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f46b733e58fd10902f3a81e/1600497450556-IE3BG8V5JDYXJSWM0KGP/20181205-3B6B6773.jpg Work - Makani - Many thanks to the film partners we worked with, who had experience and expertise we relied upon greatly. Thank you Betsy Pfeiffer for being our unflagging backbone as we created and then churned through all this material. Thank you to David Schankula, who dug through our script and raw materials and wikipedia articles and fell in love with our project, and helped us see what others would want to see, too. Thank you to our sound experts, Shani Aviram and Eric Carbonara, without whose help this would have sounded a lot rougher and less interesting. Thank you Doug Garth Williams for the most excellent explainer videos we have ever had to show people how our technology was meant to work. Thank you to our colorist, David Santamaria, who saved some footage that was badly in need of love and gave us the very final film. Always thank you to our team, the Makani family, who we will continue to love forever. You have allowed us many liberties with the cameras and the microphones. We feel a huge gratitude for the extra hands, minds, hearts and all the time some of you spent driving aerial lifts for gopros positioned all over the kite, tether and ground station… all in pursuit of knowledge. 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The Incas and their ancestors wrested arable land from the cliffs by carving terraces across vast tracts of land, a legacy their descendants steward now. 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