PROFESSIONAL & VOLUNTEER ROLES
2023 - Present, Owner, Refraction Creative LLC
2018 - 2024 – Videographer/Multimedia Designer, Oakland University Communications and Marketing
2023 – Guest Lecturer, Lutheran Northwest High School Media Department
2020 – Guest Lecturer, Walled Lake Central High School Art Department
2016 - 2018 – Student Producer, Oakland University Video Services Department
2017 – Volunteer, Vidlings and Tapeheads Film Festival
2016 – Medical Animation Editor, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
2016 – Teaching Assistant, Volunteer, Meadow Brook Elementary Film Workshop
SELECTED CREW WORK
2022 - 2025 – Camera Operator, Movement Music Festival, Paxahau
2023 - 2025 – Camera Operator, American Heart Association Walk, JMW Creative
2025 – Drone Operator, The Stand (Documentary), Lintukoto Productions
2025 – Camera Operator, Teamsters (Documentary), Early Light Media
2024 – DP, You Can in Michigan, Pitch Black x Reel Clever
2024 – Camera Operator, American Heart Association Gala, JMW Creative
2024 – Editor, Asian American Lives in Michigan: Food and Community, Reel Clever, Smithsonian
2024 – Camera Operator, Asian American Lives in Michigan (Series), Reel Clever, Smithsonian
2024 – DP, Black Women Lead (Documentary), Neighborhood Bodega
2024 – Camera Operator, Unyielding (Documentary), BVE Entertainment
2023 – Camera Operator, Calvin Johnson vs. Jahmyr Gibbs Cooking Challenge, The Good Stuff Film, Whistle x Finish
2023 – Camera Operator, Detroit Opera House, Noah Mo
2023 – Jib Operator, Aries Grid, Our Next Energy
2023 – Camera Operator, Heroes Circle: Making ME, Reel Clever
2023 – Camera Operator, Skillshare x Holly Rutt, Reel Clever
2023 – Camera Operator, Meijer Stairway to Success, Reel Clever
2022 – Editor, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors, Crux Academy x REI
CERTIFICATION
2021 - Present – FAA Certified Drone Pilot
SELECTED SCREENINGS/PUBLICATIONS
2023 – You Are a Memory, Madness Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2022 – You Are a Memory, Divulge Dancer’s Film Festival, Hollywood, CA
2022 – Transcendent Motion, Cuadro Por Danza Festival, Caracas, Venezula
2021 – Terra, ART from HEART ECOfeminism Film Festival, London, UK
2019 – Terra, Sunrise 45 Film Festival, Alpena, MI
2019 – Terra, Pontiac Arts Crawl, Pontiac, MI
2019 – Terra, Independent Talents International Film Festival, Bloomington, IN
2018 – Terra, Detroit Shetown Film Festival, Best Breakout Filmmaker & Best Michigan Film Nomination, Detroit, MI
2017 – Perfection, Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen, Ann Arbor, MI
2017 – Art Cinema and Second Wave Feminism: Addressing Representations of Gender and Sexuality in a New Way, Screen Culture Journal
2016 – Examining the Impact of Censorship on Themes of She Done Him Wrong, Screen Culture Journal
SELECTED AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2024 – Silver, Cinematography / Editing, Be Golden, Telly Awards
2022 – Bronze, Cinematography, The Living Classroom, Telly Awards
2021 – Employee of the Month, Oakland University
2021 – Gold, Virtual Event Video, Nightingale Awards for Nursing Excellence, CASE Awards
2020 – Silver, Cinematography, Ernesto’s Story, Telly Awards
2020 – Bronze, Documentary, Ernesto’s Story, Telly Awards
2020 – Bronze, Documentary, Because of my OU History Degree, Telly Awards
2020 – Silver, Cinematography, Reimagining OU, Telly Awards
2019 – Gold, Best Video Feature – Long, Aspire Advance Achieve, CASE Awards
2018 – Senior Filmmaking Award, Oakland University College of Arts and Sciences
2018 – Second Place, Reusable Bottles PSA, Michigan Student Broadcast Awards
2017 – First Place, Digital Media Experience, Michigan Student Broadcast Awards
EDUCATION
BA Cinema Studies with Specialization in Filmmaking, Minors in Graphic Design and Communication, Summa Cum Laude, Oakland University