I currently serve as the Documentary Unit coordinating producer with CBS News’ See It Now Studios, run by former CBS News President Susan Zirinsky. Z, as we call her, first hired me as an intern back in 2016 and brought me back to work for 48 Hours once I graduated. Between then and now, I worked on Whistleblower, helping reveal a $1 billion fraud scheme perpetrated by members of an extremist Mormon sect, and produced archival-based storytelling on Watergate and 9/11.
I also won two Emmy Awards, the first for a crash on the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school shooting and the subsequent March for Our Lives. The second, Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Frontline, had me on the ground at the Bronx’s largest hospital during the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizing media and story threads and coordinating between the field and remote team.
It was there where I saw the value of project organization and coordination firsthand. Teeth were cut and skills honed, enabling me to rise from Associate Producer to Coordinating Producer over the course of the next three months while I crashed three more specials.
I subsequently coordinated pre- and post-production on the six-episode BET series Boiling Point and the two-hour documentaries Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11 and Watergate: High Crimes in the White House, both of which aired on the CBS network and stream on Paramount+.
Myself and the other 48 Hours interns in a CBS Sports studio.