Category: politics
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“The Human Rights Campaign Endorses Joe Biden for President 2020”
I was asked to discreetly make an endorsement video that centered on Joe Biden’s speeches at HRC dinners and events. It was the earliest days of of the pandemic and creative approaches were limited. I watched the many HRC speeches, pulled out the best recurring themes and then cut them into a mashup of Biden’s…
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The Pandemic, Livestreams and 2020 Election
Once the pandemic hit in 2020, we resorted to remote production for a large part of the cycle at the Human Rights Campaign. Instead of livestreaming in-person events, we pivoted to programmatic livestreams with hosts, guests and themes. I helped worked on finding the technology, deploying the solution and training staff, while supervising all the…
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Guerilla Marketing & Projections
As part of a small team, I traveled to Helsinki, Finland, for the infamous Trump-Putin presidential summit where along with some expert projectionists we guerilla broadcast LGBTQ+ messaging and HRC branding onto the presidential palace. Our director of comms had picked an amazing spot in view of all the live TV networks, and I livestreamed…
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\”Liar. Liar.\”
Early in the Trump presidency at the Human Rights Campaign, after he started attacking the LGBTQ+ community and banning trans troops, I pitched a creative approach to calling Trump out while painting him as a carnival barker. The SVP comms liked it and in a matter of hours we posted this video across all our…
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\”Progress is on the Ballot\”
I was tasked with making a video that would reach voters of color and emphasize what was at stake in the 2016 election. I had the idea of using a speech by President Barack Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus and combining it with Pete Souza’s White House photography to make an emotional plea as…
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\”Brave\”
I waas shadowing Secretary Clinton as part of the Hillary 2016 presidential campaing when this incredible moment happened on the trail. I immediately flagged it for leadership and sent a rough cut to HQ, “You’ve really got to see this!” A wonderful colleague took the initial rough and finished it off overnight into an ad…
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\”Equal\”
The Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign asked me to create a video for social media that would release the day of the Supreme Court decision in favor of marriage equality in 2015. With zero budget, I came up with the idea of combining Hillary’s speeches and emotional video I had discovered online of actual LGBTQ+ marriages…
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\”The Story of Her\”
Client: Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary for America Role: Producer, Editor Run Time: 5:38
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\”Martha and Sara\”
The Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign wanted a piece of content that would highlight the Secretary’s achievements in passing the CHIP Act and providing health insurance to children. Working across departments, I found these subjects, filmed them one-person-band and convinced them to let me digitize their old home videos to come up with this emotional piece.…
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MSNBC: \”Pocatello\”
Client: MSNBC Originals Role: Producer, Camera, Editor Run Time: 7:06 Client: MSNBC Originals Role: Producer, Camera, Editor Run Time: 8:05