Since the beginning of the Civil War in 2011, many displaced Syrians have been forced to flee their homes with just the clothes on their backs. In the height of war, not a moment could be spared to pack the vital items that they would need to start a new…

Reminded what it meant to be a New Yorker In April 2020, I watched on the sidelines as the COVID death toll surpassed the only other relatable death toll that had ever befallen New York City — 9/11. I was completely powerless, or was I? A week later I organized a group of essential workers — a subway conductor…

Ask anyone who knows me, they would probably agree that I am someone that pushes limits when it comes to my work. That can be spending long period of time or effort to get a story, working overnight exporting a final cut, or the usual act of taking on multiple…

The slap heard round the world will have stole some of the real buzz from last night’s star studded event with CODA winning Best Picture. CODA which stands for Child of Deaf Adult was also my pick for best picture. I have a good friend who is deaf but fits…

It was 2018 when I was first interested in learning more about the violence happening in Eastern Ukraine. Russia had been inciting conflict in the region since 2015 and at the point in which I went it was treated mostly as an old news story. …

It was a stuffed animal sausage dog I had aptly named Valentino. When you pressed his tummy it would wag its tail and turn its head and sing ‘Do You Love Me?’ It was an appropriate question, but more about myself rather than innocent little Valentino. How much is that doggie in the window? My partner at the…

This is a creative writing series describing scenes in my daily life. — What began as a better habit in 2021 became a way to begin 2022. To break up the isolation of working from home, I began taking my lunch break outside next to the sea in the sunshine. I’d make a salad using a combination of fresh lettuce with leftovers from…

Bad news comes in threes, or at least thats what they say and what we count when the bad news begins to pile up. I don’t always count how often the good news comes and I probably should because at moments like this I feel I can’t see the overflowing…

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s the philosophical currency of sound? My latest documentary The War Less Travelled has me away from my creature comfort of using camera to tell stories and relied on the very medium I usually put at the bottom of my skill set totem pole — audio recordings. The War Less Travelled is an audio documentary that…