Tag: editor
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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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“Hillary Clinton’s Rousing, Inspiring Tribute to Edie Windsor”
The directive was to clip Hillary Clinton’s speech at Edie Windsor’s funeral, which the Human Rights Campaign had a big hand in organizing, for social media. I edited the piece with music and broll, making a rousing homage. While it took a few additional hours, the video was shared thousands of times and earned millions…
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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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#StopJeffMateer
In 2017 we pushed back against some of Trump’s most anti-LGBTQ nominees and policies. Trump had recommended Jeff Mateer for a lifetime judiciary appointment, and we mobilized folks into action against the nomination. We surfaced his remarks in a video online, livestreamed a press conference on Capitol Hill and then cut the livestream footage into…
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\”We Need You\”
I was assigned to capture President Bill Clinton’s remarks after a debate in New Hampshire as part of the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign. The narrative at the time was that Hillary had lost young voters to Bernie Sanders. I discovered a bunch of enthusiastic, young Hillary supporters chanting outside the debate, filmed them, and combined…