About

My thirteen years in journalism have taken me from reporting on Alaska Natives’ opposition to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wilidlife Refuge, to the fight against the U.S. military expansion in Guam and Okinawa. I’ve interviewed Chinese-American grocers who live along the Mississippi Delta, and covered the resistance against Monsanto’s use of herbicides in Puerto Rico. I also spent over 5 years filming youth from undocumented families in East Oakland, directing a documentary about a student-led fight for a safe soccer field in response to the violent deaths of their classmates. 

I grew up in Oakland, California and Kobe, Japan and believe that being raised in two complex cities on both sides of the Pacific have played a significant role in my passion for journalism and documentary storytelling.