More About Me
Graduate School...
Following college, I was torn between going to law school or going to film school. Both seemed appealing to me for different reasons and I was so undecided that I applied to both to delay the choice. I applied to several law schools and to several film schools and got accepted everywhere I applied.
Eventually, I decided I would regret it if I didn't pursue my interest in film and television, and I chose to enter the M.F.A. program in Film & Electronic Media at American University in Washington, D.C. I knew I wanted to eventually go into teaching so pursuing an M.F.A. seemed the perfect choice for me. While at American, I had a lot of fun taking classes in Film and Video Production, Film Theory, Cross Cultural Cinema, Animation and Producing (to name a few!). I couldn't imagine sitting in classes at law school on torts and contracts after that. Production work and teaching were the things I knew I wanted to do as my career.
Some grad school-era photos...
December 1997 - with a suitemate in the dorm at American University |
August 1998 - visiting my friend Inga Schmitz in Germany |
August 1998 - visiting my friend Gudrun Ewertz in Germany |
December 1998 - at a holiday party |
April 1999 - in Washington, DC |
June 1999 - at a barbeque party |
June 1999 - at a barbeque party |
An internship that I did during my time at American led to a job offer at Haley Productions (now Allied Pixel) in Media, Pennsylvania, where I worked as a nonlinear video editor and producer.
Some production photos...
November 1998 - on a film shoot in Washington, DC |
Circa Spring 2000 - at work at Haley Productions in Media, PA |
I eventually left Haley Productions to continue my education in the Ph.D. program in Mass Media and Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During this time, I began adjunct teaching at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in addition to working as a teaching and research assistant at Temple University. I also worked as a resident and programming assistant at the International House of Philadelphia during the 2001 - 2002 school year and I spent the summer of 2002 teaching at the Julian Krinsky Enrichment Camp at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania.