About the Filmmaker

It wasn’t until I started making films that I realized I have always been in the business of storytelling. My entire career has been devoted to helping individuals and organizations discover their stories and then use them to learn about themselves and make choices about how they want to lead in their personal and professional lives.

Filmmaking started for me in 2009 with the opportunity to work with a gifted and seasoned filmmaker to complete her three independent documentary films. From that experience I knew that filmmaking would become the vehicle for my voice through telling the stories about how others are making important contributions to their communities by just “walking their talk”—living their values in their everyday words and deeds.

I came to Maine from Boston (where I lived most of my adult life) after growing up in Arkansas. In graduate school I earned a Master’s degree in organizational and career development which I put to work at Polaroid -- where we were all invested in making storytelling instantly accessible. After leaving Polaroid in the late eighties, I continued to collect stories through traveling and working in organizational consulting (in the US and Europe), during a stint as private chef in the South of France, as a paid staff on a presidential campaign, and as an the owner of a bed and breakfast on the coast of Maine (to name a few).