About
Journalistic instinct.
Hollywood experience.
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After completing a Master's in Journalism at NYU, I worked on various Frontline documentary projects (PBS) before pivoting to the publishing world and becoming Malcolm Gladwell's researcher. I aided in reporting, interviewing, and researching across many of his New Yorker pieces and his third bestseller, Outliers, while continuing to write my own articles and reviews in publications such as The New Yorker, Sydney Morning Herald, Psychology Today, Time Out, and Huffington Post.
I transitioned to film when the then Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures hired me as a creative executive within the Columbia Pictures feature film group. There, I worked on numerous studio movies and became familiar with the inner workings of the entertainment industry. It became clear to me there was an urgent need for rigorous and expert research support to help screenwriters expedite and improve the creative process. With that in mind, I launched my consulting business — a nexus of journalism research and film development — to help translate ideas and data into accessible and accurate storytelling. I soon began working on film and television projects for all of the major studios: Paramount, Sony, HBO, and Universal Pictures, before going in-house as an exclusive consultant at Warner Bros. for almost a decade.
Alongside film and TV development, I've also participated in writers' rooms on a few Apple TV+ series, produced and consulted on podcasts, and continuously worked closely with best-selling authors on major nonfiction books. Throughout each of these projects, my role has included ideating, sourcing stories, interviewing subjects, and providing editorial and research support at every stage of the process. Recently, I've been focusing on "concept packets" — building out nascent ideas for producers and execs to provide a creative catalyst and pave the runway for writers.
What I bring to every project is a journalist's instinct for what's real and what resonates, combined with deep familiarity with the creative development process to produce substantive and evocative storytelling.
