Jessey D.

Global Immersion: San Francisco

Minerva Schools is designed around a new vision of higher education that combines a reinvented curriculum, rigorous academic standards, innovative technology, and an immersive global experience. Students study in seven different cities around the world over the course of four years. This film highlights the co-curricular and location-based activities that define the unique Minerva experience.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News

MPALA LIVE - Living With Wildlife

The Mpala Research Centre (MRC) receives hundreds of students, educators, and scientists from around the globe each year, conducting research on everything from parasites to elephants. The unique set up of Mpala allows for researchers to use the land as a ‘living laboratory’ in which to conduct experiments and answer pressing questions on conservation and wildlife.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer

MSNBC - Enemies to Allies

In Kisumu, Kenya, police abuse of sex workers was rampant. Extortion, physical and psychological abuse were commonplace, and sex workers’ rights were violated. This resulted in sex workers not receiving essential health services and police officers contributing to the spread of HIV. Now, a local NGO has fought to reverse that trend by building better relationships between police and sex workers.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News

National Geographic - Undercane

Roughly half the adult male population of Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, is suffering from an often deadly kidney disease that appears to be linked to their work as sugarcane cutters. Known as chronic kidney failure, the disease has cast a pall over this town that’s home to the San Antonio Sugar Mill. This film documents dying cane workers and investigates possible causes and solutions to this disease.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News

The New York Times - 36 Hours

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP

This Clam Is NSFW - Try It, You'll Like It

A geoduck is the world’s largest burrowing clam. That’s pronounced “gooey duck.” And it looks like a... um… (well, you have eyes.) This saltwater clam is unique to the Pacific Northwest and is challenging to harvest. But the crew at Taylor Shellfish Farms in Bow, Washington, have their methods. How do they taste? Imagine the sweetness of scallops combined with the saltiness of calamari.

• Documentary DP