About me

Underneath all the titles (writer, director, producer, multimedia journalist), I’m just a girl who likes to enchant others. The entire process, from start to finish, delights me. 

The moment I meet a person for the first time, I look for clues. I’m a bit of a weirdo, so I’ll be thinking, straight off the bat, what was their defining moment? And then — will they tell me about it? 

I love questions. Not so much answers. You can’t pay me enough money to tell me there are enough words in any language (and I can speak quite a few, mind) that can satisfy the human itch to seek that which their soul longs for. 

Wait, I’m wrong.

There is one word — Love. Amor. Kwagalana. Amour. Love is the question, and the answer. Love is everything in between. As Nicola Yoon eloquently and painfully puts it in Instructions for Dancing, the opposite of love is death.

Emily Dickinson is pretty damn succinct about it, too:

That Love is all there is,

Is all we know of Love;

It is enough, the freight should be

Proportioned to the groove.

I don’t know when it started, the insatiable curiosity. All I know is, I’ve always felt it, and I know this sensation, the steady whir of questions, will be with me forever. I’m fine with it. 

Thank God and thank goodness for stories. Without them, I would come undone. I love stories. I look for them everywhere — in sentences, in pictures, in moving images, inside people. I love hearing them, watching them, teasing them out, capturing them, and telling others about them. The thing about stories is, a well-told one can change everything — your hour, your day, your thinking, your life. 

Every story has a quiet heartbeat. It’s up to us to be still enough to hear it. 

So this is me. A woman who tells stories, by any means necessary.  

The story of my life is, thankfully, still being written. But here’s what I can tell you: I was born in Savannah, Georgia; I grew up in Kampala, Uganda; I’ve studied in Costa Rica, Evanston, and London; I’ve worked while living in Evanston, Chicago, New York City, Johannesburg, Kampala, New York City, Boulder, Kampala, and Nairobi, in that order. Of all the places I’ve lived, Johannesburg is my F-COAT (Favorite City of All Time).

Bonus donthavetoknowsbutImgonnatellyouanyways:

  1. My first love was a book.

  2. I write to exhale.

  3. I cry easily.

  4. I see through frames — literally and figuratively.

  5. I act and dance to surrender.

  6. I run to feel.

  7. I do the yoga to slow down time.

  8. I pray to God to make sense of it all.

Still want something a little more solid, like a résumé? Here you go.

In late 2018, I started a film company in Kampala called Bad Mama Jama Films to make films and other kinds of stories, whatever the media format. Learn more about Bad Mama Jama Films here.

In 2022, I started working with Invention Studios, an L.A. based film company, as a Creative Executive and Producer. Learn more about Invention Studios here.