Video and Social Media Portfolio
Sonder Scribbles
Roles Include: producer, artist, social media, event manager,
Created in July 2024, Sonder Scribbles is a community project that celebrates the power we all have to impact each other, which means we all have the power to impact the world! This instagram account @sonderscribbles_ (highlighted here) will document this project that centers on real world connection and action. To join the project, follow the account, share posts, or jump into the middle of the action by writing on any slip of paper a note of encouragement, a piece of advice, or a note about how you stay resilient This should just take a minute or two!! Then hang up that piece of paper in a common area or leave it for someone to find or hand it to a friend or stranger! In that moment, you are using your power to support another human, and I think that human will feel that support and feel an impact. We can impact each other, even for a second, and create communities and moments of support and belief in one another. One personal world at a time we are making our collective world better. Stay tuned for in-person events and calls to action and a growing social media presence and community.
Half the History
Roles Include: pre-production planning, footage logging, on-set support and production, interviewing, filming, editing, digitizing/archiving tapes
4 years (2020-present) Half the History is a multimedia project from Five Sisters Productions that aims to highlight the stories of women throughout history who haven’t had their stories told. Through films, documentaries, podcast, blogs, and social media, the project aims to use the power of stories to bring to the forefront the amazing people who have been hidden from mainstream history. I have been a part of this project for the past 4 years with pre-production, on-set, and editing.
Nonprofit Video Collaborations
Roles Include: outreach, pre-production planning, producing, filming, interviewing, editing
I am passionate about using my production, video, and editing skills to make change. I reached out to nonprofits around my local area (greater Boston) to see if they had any video needs. I want to meet people and organizations where they are in all of my collaborations. Bridge Over Troubled Waters and the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association were two organization who had ideas for videos, they just needed someone to do them. These volunteer videos put my love of collaboration and meeting people were they are at at the center of the work.
The Hidden Treasures of Harvard Square
Roles Include: producer, director/filming, editing
(2023) Ali Chaffai has owned and operated his store Hidden Treasures, located on the second floor of The Garage, for the last 35 years. Now, The Garage is closing. Through Ali’s story, we see how Harvard Square is changing, but also the power, resilience, and beauty in how people approach change. (Senior Thesis documentary, utilizes footage from freshman year through my senior year, and aiming to amplify one story to speak to change, gentrification, immigration, and shared human experiences)
Tufts Hillel
Roles Include: designing and posting static and animated social media posts, script writing and idea formation for the brand and posts, editing copy and scripts, taking a video from pre through post production, filming, photography, and video editing
(2020-2023) working with Tufts Hillel as one of three digital media fellows
Focused on the social justice initiatives and student programs that Tufts Hillel puts on each year, targeting a student and alum audience
Aided to develop a cohesive and thoughtful brand identity that unites posting across all social media, and is centered on the human heart of the story
Used SEO and audience engagement tools to grow an engaged audience across all Tufts Hillel social media channels
Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security
Roles Include: created oral history and video guides, pre-production interview research, conducted oral history interviews, edited and transcribed videos, created and tracked social media posts, archive research
(2022) At the Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security, I helped to develop the Oral History brand through social media and videos by making cohesive templates for social media posts and videos (30 second, 1 minute, 5 minute, and full interviews). I developed a brand book for oral history interviews and tracked social media using SEO tools in an effort to grow an engaged and informed audience.
GoGetHer: Through Our Letters
Roles Include: producer, director/filming, editing
(2021) is a documentary (the first I worked on for a prolonged amount of time) about GoGetHer, a transgender woman in an all men’s prison in Florida through a pen pal exchange program at the beginning of Covid. GoGetHer and I made this documentary about her story and experiences, as well as our letters and how we communicated.
Learning Life
Roles Include: director, editor
(2020) Created videos to explain Learning Life, a nonprofit that aims to connect families across the globe and support students in Washington D.C. and around the world through a variety of different programs
Worked with children across the world to run education health programs, and then make videos with the children on zoom to be shared on Learning Life’s social media
Worked with a brand book and client feedback to make branding cohesive and consistent across all social media and video projects
Interview Work
(2018-present) I love interviewing people to amplify people’s voices and write stories that can be meaningful to them and others. Some of my favorite interview projects that I have worked on are linked here, including one of my first interview works I ever did for my Girl Scout Gold Award in high school. During that time I interviewed elders in my area and then taught high school classes about the importance of primary sources and how to interview, including making “how-to” guides that you can find in the presentation! Also featured are stories about fisherman in New England and climate change, street musicians in the Boston area written as an ethnography, and a story written during the height of the genocide that was happening in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Fasciano Productions
(2021-present) Fasciano Productions is where my siblings and I collaborate and create videos of all kinds. We have done scripted videos, reaction videos, music videos, and we hope to create many more creative endeavors together. This is also where I put my own documentary and experimental videos. Right now in the works are an archival video of film and quotes, an Agnès Varda homage, nature mockumentary, a World Fair video, and several collaborations with different nonprofits in the Boston area.