Selections from my Portfolio

Gold Addy Award Winner for Public Service Announcement - 2025

This video was created to engage the LGBTQIA+ community with All of Us, an important health initiative designed to drive health care innovation by enrolling one million participants and gathering diverse health data.

In collaboration with Stanford, PRIDEnet was a short, documentary-style film featuring Donald M. Bell—a civil rights activist and All of Us advocate. Donald shared his experiences growing up as a gay Black man in Chicago. He also explained the purpose and benefits of All of Us and encouraged LGBTQIA+ individuals—a community historically underrepresented in health research—to enroll, knowing their participation can help advance scientific understanding and improve health outcomes.

The resulting video is emotional, impactful, and sincere. In 2025, it received a Gold Addy Award for Public Service Announcement.

Award of Distinguished 2023: Society for Technical Communication

This video was produced to encourage firefighters to enroll in the National Firefighter Registry (NFR). This nationwide initiative aims to better understand and address cancer risks among firefighters. To create a compelling call to action, the team conducted interviews with firefighters from across the country, capturing their personal insights on the importance of participating in the registry. We staged a variety of shots at a local fire station using an iPad as a focal point. Interview footage was then superimposed onto the iPad screen, seamlessly connecting remote interviews to an authentic, real-world setting. The visual storytelling was further enhanced by layering imagery of firefighters with smoke effects and incorporating impactful sound design, including sirens and other sound effects. The project was recognized with an Award of Distinguished by the Society for Technical Communication in 2023, underscoring the power of creative storytelling in advancing public health initiatives.

 The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is one of the most valuable resources for understanding the health of people in the United States. To highlight NHANES’ importance and encourage participation, RTI Video & Animation partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create a compelling animated video. The video explains how NHANES works, why it matters, and how the data collected helps shape public health policies and programs nationwide.

This video was produced as a continuation of the study initiative to encourage firefighters to enroll in the National Firefighter Registry (NFR). This nationwide initiative aims to better understand and address cancer risks among firefighters. The team traveled to Irvine, CA to capture firefighters in action and highlight wildfire footage. This was particularly relevant considering the devastating fires occurring at the beginning of 2025 in Los Angeles.

Award of Merit 2023: Society for Technical Communication

The purpose for the Expanding Immigrant Integration in Adult Education video was to educate viewers about immigrant integration and explain how programs like IELCE and IET are working together to provide training and resources to immigrants and refugees when they arrive in the United States.

This animated motion graphics video is for CDC’s Project Firstline, an educational resource for healthcare workers. My team produced several videos currently playing on the CDC's YouTube Channel and social media sites.

Award of Excellence 2023: Society for Technical Communication

RTI’s Video & Animation team created a series of animated videos to promote open-source software Tangerine, Tangerine: Teach, and Tangerine: Coach, a formative assessment software that collects and analyzes classroom data to help teachers, educators, and students improve their skills. The goal was to encourage educators to subscribe and implement the software, which will support RTI International’s efforts to cultivate education worldwide. From concept to script to art that was hand drawn and animated by our staff, this campaign was designed to reach disadvantaged and low-income regions across the world to provide tools for educators.

 Silver Telly Award 2024 

Step Out of the Frame won a Silver Telly Award in 2024. Receiving over 13,000 entries globally from 6 continents and all 50 states, Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies and publishers from around the world.

The Step Out of the Frame animation was produced for Family and Youth Services (FYSB). The goal was to create an animated video to inform teenagers about the potential negative effects of social media use. From the initial concept to the final frame, everyone collaborated to produce a successful product through a manner and a message that speaks to teenagers at their level. FYSB hopes the animation will improve the mental health of youth by helping them avoid unhealthy consequences that are often associated with social media.