I'm a Philadelphia-born and raised filmmaker and educator whose work explores the emotional landscapes, imaginations, and interior lives of the Black diaspora through both narrative and nonfiction storytelling. My films have screened at festivals including Palm Springs Shortfest, San Francisco International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Shorts México, where I received a special jury mention for short doc MEN WHO TALK. My short film BLACK MAGIC was nominated for the Enderby Entertainment Award at the 2023 Austin Film Festival. I was named a 2024 top screenwriter to watch by Austin Film Festival and MovieMaker magazine.
In 2025, I produced the Oscar-eligible short documentary Teddy, which received awards at the Atlanta Film Festival and Oxford Film Festival before a theatrical run in New York. I also curate the Better Angels Lavine Fellowship and manage the Prize for Film with the Better Angels Society, and teach at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. I hold a BA in English Lit from the University of Rochester, an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA in Film Production from UT Austin.